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020			_a9780511761508 (ebook)
020			_z9780521192897 (hardback)
020			_z9780521140911 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aKF4550 _b.M33 2010
082	0	0	_a342.73 _222
100	1		_aMcDowell, Gary L., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism / _cGary L. McDowell.
246	3		_aThe Language of Law & the Foundations of American Constitutionalism
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (428 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aFor much of its history, the interpretation of the United States Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred rule of interpretation'. Since the end of the nineteenth century, a radically new understanding has developed in which the moral intuition of the judges is allowed to supplant the Constitution's original meaning as the foundation of interpretation. The Founders' Constitution of fixed and permanent meaning has been replaced by the idea of a 'living' or evolving constitution. Gary L. McDowell refutes this new understanding, recovering the theoretical grounds of the original Constitution as understood by those who framed and ratified it. It was, he argues, the intention of the Founders that the judiciary must be bound by the original meaning of the Constitution when interpreting it.
650		0	_aConstitutional law
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521192897
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761508
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37995 _d37995