Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation Tapa dura - 1993

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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1993. Comprehensive anthology presents some of the most exciting and influential contemporary work in this area. Written by ten of the country’s most prominent legal scholars, the selections represent a wide variety of interpretive approaches, reflecting different political orientations from the far right to the far left. Current controversies over abortion, affirmative action, school prayer, hate speech, and other issues have sparked considerable public debate about how the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted. Such controversies, along with the changing composition of an often deeply divided Supreme Court, have led to a resurgence of interest in theories of constitutional interpretation. These theorists have drawn on a variety of other disciplines, including literature, economics, philosophy, history and politics, and have in turn influenced these fields.The selections were chosen for their accessibility, originality, variety, and importance. 266 pgs. . First… Leer más