The living Constitution /

The living Constitution /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Strauss, David A., author.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:	xviii, 150 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Inalienable rights series Inalienable rights series.
Subject:	Constitutional law -- United States. Law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction. Common law -- United States -- Methodology. Constitutional history -- United States. Constitutional history. Constitutional law. Law -- Interpretation and construction. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7934581

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ISBN:	9780195377279 0195377273 9780199703692 0199703698
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In "The Living Constitution," leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and other "originalists," explaining in clear, jargon-free English how the Constitution can sensibly evolve, without falling into the anything-goes flexibility caricatured by opponents.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : do we want a living constitution?
Originalism and its sins
The common law
Freedom of speech and the living constitution
Brown v. Board of Education and innovation in the living constitution (with a note on Roe v. Wade)
The role of the written constitution : common ground and Jefferson's problem
Constitutional amendments and the living constitution.