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Author O'Neill, Johnathan G. (Johnathan George)

Title Originalism in American law and politics : a constitutional history / Johnathan O'Neill.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.029 On2o 2005    ---  Available
Description x, 281 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Johns Hopkins series in constitutional thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From textual originalism to modern judicial power -- Modern judicial power and the process/restraint tradition -- The return of originalist analysis in the Warren Court era -- At the crossroads : the originalist idea in post-Warren Court politics and jurisprudence -- Raoul Berger and the restoration of originalism -- Originalism in the era of Ronald Reagan -- Robert Bork and the trial of originalism -- Originalism in the 1990s : the transformation of academic theory and the limitations of practice.
Subject Constitutional history.
Law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction -- History.
ISBN 0801881110 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2154941

 
    
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