Title: Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory /
Authors: McIntosh, Simeon C. R.,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Constitutional law West Indies, British Philosophy.; Constitutional law United States Philosophy; Hermeneutics.
Contents: Introduction: Toward a West Indian hermeneutics: the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice -- 1. Legal hermeneutics: a philosophical critique -- 2. Controversial propositions of law and the positivist embarrassment: the Hart/Dworkin debate reconsidered -- 3. On reading the Ninth Amendment: a reply to Raoul Berger -- 4. A poetic for law: constitutional theory as metaphor -- 5. Reading Dred Scott, Plessy, and Brown: toward a constitutional hermeneutics -- 6. West Indian constitutional discourse: a poetics of reconstruction.