The (Un)Written Constitution
Autor George Thomasen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 ian 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197555972
ISBN-10: 0197555977
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 216 x 149 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197555977
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 216 x 149 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
I think this book will be an excellent supplement for students working their way through the canon of constitutional law and trying to understand why and how the constitution and its meaning evolve over time, even when the text does not change. In my experience,the best reads are the ones that leave us with burning questions for future scholars and thinkers to resolve. The (Un)Written Constitution certainly accomplishes that.
The (Un)Written Constitution is a thoughtful, well-written slim volume that I could easily see assigning in an advanced undergraduate constitutional law course. Indeed, by paying close attention to Thomas's arguments, students will surely emerge as more confident constitutional interpreters in their own right and enhance their understanding of the necessity of exploring the principles that underlie the opinions of the justices.
The (Un)Written Constitution involves Thomas's careful elucidations of the reasoning of judges on both sides of the political divide in a series of well-known Supreme Court decisions, from the nation's inception to the present
Before turning to the substance of Thomas' arguments, it is important to note that this book is extremely well-written and accessible enough for well-informed non-lawyers but also sufficiently sophisticated to appeal to constitutional law professors—no easy trick. Above all, Thomas does a masterful job presenting opposing arguments in their strongest lights before he tears them down. He takes textualist arguments seriously, even when he rejects them, which is exactly how a scholar should treat counterarguments.
The (Un)Written Constitution is a marvelously concise and myth-busting account of America's central constitutional debates. By proving beyond dispute that all constitutional interpreters must rely on unwritten assumptions and political theories to make sense of the constitutional text, Thomas helps lift the fog of confusion that shrouds so much constitutional controversy. A must read for judges, students, and citizens: all who seek to understand the meaning of our founding texts.
All constitutional interpretation begins somewhere within the four corners of the text. But as George Thomas argues in this crisply written, astute, and occasionally ironic analysis, how jurists read and interpret that text always rests upon some set of notions about the political theory of the Constitution, the moral values embedded in it, and a host of other ideas about the enterprise of legal interpretation. For Thomas, these are the '(un)written' parts of the Constitution that appear nowhere in its text but that permeate the whole messy enterprise of interpretation that he deftly dissects.
Thomas argues that textualists and originalists, no less than living constitutionalists and moral readers, make judgments based on unwritten understandings of the Constitution-debatable interpretations of its fundamental concepts, principles, and commitments, as well as of the underlying political theory embodied in the Constitution. Thus, contrary to common assertions, our disagreements in constitutional interpretation are not between those who stick to the text and those who go outside it. This is a timely, accessible, and compelling book.
This book persuasively shows that our central constitutional disagreements are not about the written text, but about unwritten ideas and understandings. Thomas succeeds in showing that this distinction between the unwritten and written is a misleading one and that the Constitution is most notably a work of applied political theory. All justices appeal to the underlying political theory of the document, a theory that in many cases they often disagree about. The book nicely draws on historical and contemporary examples to advance this argument.
The (Un)Written Constitution is a thoughtful, well-written slim volume that I could easily see assigning in an advanced undergraduate constitutional law course. Indeed, by paying close attention to Thomas's arguments, students will surely emerge as more confident constitutional interpreters in their own right and enhance their understanding of the necessity of exploring the principles that underlie the opinions of the justices.
The (Un)Written Constitution involves Thomas's careful elucidations of the reasoning of judges on both sides of the political divide in a series of well-known Supreme Court decisions, from the nation's inception to the present
Before turning to the substance of Thomas' arguments, it is important to note that this book is extremely well-written and accessible enough for well-informed non-lawyers but also sufficiently sophisticated to appeal to constitutional law professors—no easy trick. Above all, Thomas does a masterful job presenting opposing arguments in their strongest lights before he tears them down. He takes textualist arguments seriously, even when he rejects them, which is exactly how a scholar should treat counterarguments.
The (Un)Written Constitution is a marvelously concise and myth-busting account of America's central constitutional debates. By proving beyond dispute that all constitutional interpreters must rely on unwritten assumptions and political theories to make sense of the constitutional text, Thomas helps lift the fog of confusion that shrouds so much constitutional controversy. A must read for judges, students, and citizens: all who seek to understand the meaning of our founding texts.
All constitutional interpretation begins somewhere within the four corners of the text. But as George Thomas argues in this crisply written, astute, and occasionally ironic analysis, how jurists read and interpret that text always rests upon some set of notions about the political theory of the Constitution, the moral values embedded in it, and a host of other ideas about the enterprise of legal interpretation. For Thomas, these are the '(un)written' parts of the Constitution that appear nowhere in its text but that permeate the whole messy enterprise of interpretation that he deftly dissects.
Thomas argues that textualists and originalists, no less than living constitutionalists and moral readers, make judgments based on unwritten understandings of the Constitution-debatable interpretations of its fundamental concepts, principles, and commitments, as well as of the underlying political theory embodied in the Constitution. Thus, contrary to common assertions, our disagreements in constitutional interpretation are not between those who stick to the text and those who go outside it. This is a timely, accessible, and compelling book.
This book persuasively shows that our central constitutional disagreements are not about the written text, but about unwritten ideas and understandings. Thomas succeeds in showing that this distinction between the unwritten and written is a misleading one and that the Constitution is most notably a work of applied political theory. All justices appeal to the underlying political theory of the document, a theory that in many cases they often disagree about. The book nicely draws on historical and contemporary examples to advance this argument.
Notă biografică
George Thomas is Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of The Madisonian Constitution and The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind, and co-author of the two-volume American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes. He has published numerous scholarly articles on Constitutional Law and American Constitutionalism, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic and The Washington Post. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library, and is the recipient of the Alexander George Award from the American Political Science Association.