Antonin Scalia and American constitutionalism: the historical significance of a judicial icon

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is a critical study of Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence, his work on the U.S. Supreme Court, and his significance for an understanding of American constitutionalism. After tracing Scalia's emergence as a hero of the political right and hi...

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Main Author: Purcell, Edward A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America Oxford University Press [2020]
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:UBY01
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Summary:Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is a critical study of Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence, his work on the U.S. Supreme Court, and his significance for an understanding of American constitutionalism. After tracing Scalia's emergence as a hero of the political right and his opposition to many of the decisions of the Warren Court, this book examines his general jurisprudential theory of originalism and textualism, arguing that he failed to produce either the objective method he claimed or the "correct" constitutional results he promised. The book argues that Scalia applied his jurisprudential theories in inconsistent ways and often ignored, twisted, or abandoned the interpretive methods he proclaimed, in most cases reaching results that were consistent with "conservative" politics and the ideology of the post-Reagan Republican Party
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 310 Seiten)
ISBN:9780197508794
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197508763.001.0001

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