Ourselves and our posterity
Subtitle: essays in constitutional originalism
By: edited by Bradley C.S. Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780739127896; 9780739127902
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction; Judicial review -- United States; Law -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bradley C.S. Watson; title: Original meaning and responsible citizenship / Edward Whelan; title: 'Common-sense constitutionalism': why constitutional structure matters for Justice Scalia / Ralph A. Rossum; title: Judicial usurpation: perennial temptation, contemporary challenge / Robert P. George; title: Authority doctrines and the proper judicial role: judicial supremacy, stare decisis, and the concept of judicial constitutional violations / Jack Wade Nowlin; title: Freedom questions, political questions: republicanism and the myth of a 'Bill of Rights' / Matthew J. Franck; title: Confirmations in times turned mean: a strategy for the hearings / Hadley P. Arkes; title: The Supreme Court and changing social mores / Christopher Wolfe; title: Originalism and political thought; title: Scientism, human nature, and modern constitutional theory / Robert Lowry Clinton; title: A constitution to die for? Congressional authority to raise an army / Stanley C. Brubaker; title: Neoconservatives and the courts: the public interest, 1965-1980 / Kenneth I. Kersch.