Against constitutional originalism : a historical critique

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Against constitutional originalism : a historical critique

Jonathan Gienapp

(Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference)

Yale University Press, [2024] , , c2024

  • : hardcover

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Part one : The originalist constitution. Originalist assumptions
  • Originalist justifications
  • Part two : The founders' constitution. A foreign country
  • Written constitutionalism at the founding
  • Federal constitutionalism and the nature of the United States
  • Fixing fixity
  • Before the legalized constitution
  • Were the founders originalists?
  • Part three : Originalism and history. Making, not finding, the constitution
  • Imposing the modern on the past
  • Conclusion : Our historical constitution

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