Living originalism

Main Author: Balkin, J. M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10518232
Table of Contents:
  • Fidelity to text and principle
  • Framework originalism
  • Why original meaning?
  • Basic law, higher law, our law
  • Constitutional faith and constitutional redemption
  • Originalisms
  • Precedents and pragmatic exceptions
  • Construction
  • A platform for persuasion
  • Commerce
  • Privileges or immunities
  • Equality before the law
  • Texts and principles
  • Change
  • Rethinking living constitutionalism
  • Change and legitimacy.