Justice in plainclothes : a theory of American constitutional practice /
In this important book, Lawrence Sager, a leading constitutional theorist, offers a lucid understanding and compelling defence of American constitutional practice. Sager treats judges as active partners in the enterprise of securing the fundamentals of political justice, and sees the process of cons...
| Основен автор: | Sager, Lawrence G. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven, CT :
Yale University,
℗♭2004.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187750 |
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Print version::
Justice in plainclothes. |
Съдържание:
- The puzzle of our constitutional practice
- 1. Accounts of our constitutional practice
- 2. Judges as agents of the past: the burdens of originalism
- 3. Enactment-centered history as an originalist supplementation of the text
- 4. Three rescue attempts: lean, middling, and thick
- 5. Enter partnership: the justice-seeking account of our constitutional practice
- 6. The thinness of constitutional law and the underenforcement thesis
- 7. The conceptual salience of underenforcement
- 8. The domain of constitutional justice
- 9. The birth logic of a democratic constitution
- 10. Democracy and the justice-seeking constitution.