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Author McGinnis, John O., 1957-

Title Originalism and the good constitution / John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (309 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Originalism : Its Discontents and the Supermajoritarian Solution -- The Nature of the Argument -- The Supermajoritarian Theory of Constitutionalism -- The Compliance of the US Constitution with Desirable Supermajority Rules -- The Continuing Desirability of an Old Supermajoritarian Constitution -- Supermajoritarian Failure, Including the Exclusion of African Americans and Women -- Original Methods Originalism -- Original Methods versus Constitutional Construction -- Precedent, Originalism, and the Constitution -- The Normative Theory of Precedent -- Imagining an Originalist Future.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Constitutional law -- United States.
Constitutional law -- Philosophy.
Origin (Philosophy)
Judicial review -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rappaport, Michael B., 1960-
Other Form: Print version: McGinnis, John O. Originalism and the good constitution. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013 298 pages ; 25 cm. 9780674725072 (DLC) 2013007994
ISBN 0674725077
9780674725072
9780674726260 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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