Keeping faith with the Constitution:
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Main Author: Liu, Goodwin 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
Series:Inalienable rights series
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The Constitution's vision and values -- Judicial interpretation of the Constitution -- Equality -- Freedom of speech -- Promoting the general welfare -- Separation of powers -- Democracy -- Criminal justice -- Liberty -- Progress and possibilities
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been supplanted by originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed as it was in the eighteenth century--that judges must adhere to the original understandings of the fo
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 248 pages)
ISBN:0199750661
9780199750665

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