God and man in the law: the foundations of anglo-American constitutionalism

In a wide-ranging study based on legal history, political theory, and philosophical ideas going all the way back to Plato and Roman law, Robert Clinton challenges current faith in an activist judiciary. Claiming that a human-centered Constitution leads to government by reductive moral theory and ill...

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Main Author: Clinton, Robert Lowry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. Univ. Press of Kansas 1997
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:In a wide-ranging study based on legal history, political theory, and philosophical ideas going all the way back to Plato and Roman law, Robert Clinton challenges current faith in an activist judiciary. Claiming that a human-centered Constitution leads to government by reductive moral theory and illegitimate judicial review, he advocates a return to traditional jurisprudence and a God-centered Constitution grounded in English common law and its precedents.
Physical Description:XIV, 293 S.
ISBN:0700608419

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