Constitutional illusions and anchoring truths
Subtitle: the key of the natural law
By: Hadley Arkes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521518178; 9780521732086
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States; Natural law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the anchoring common sense and the puzzles of the law; title: On the novelties of an old constitution : settled principles and unsettling surprises; title: The new seductions of the Eleventh Amendment; title: Lochner and the cast of our law; title: The strange case of prior restraint : the Pentagon Papers; title: Near revisited; title: The saga of Frank Snepp and the new regime of previous restraints; title: And yet ... a good word on behalf of the legal positivists; title: Conclusion and afterword.