How to interpret the Constitution

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	How to interpret the Constitution / Cass R. Sunstein.
개인저자	Sunstein, Cass R., author.
형태사항	1 online resource (195 pages)
기타형태 저록	Print version: Sunstein, Cass R. How to interpret the Constitution. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023] 0691252041
ISBN	9780691252056 069125205X
일반주기	Contains index (pages 169-172).
소장본주기	WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050
요약	"The U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today--about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of constitutional interpretation are profoundly affecting the lives of all Americans. In this brief and urgent book, Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein provides a lively introduction to competing approaches to interpreting the Constitution--and argues that the only way to choose one is to ask whether it would change American life for the better or worse. If a method of interpretation would eliminate the right of privacy, allow racial segregation, or obliterate free speech, it would be unacceptable for that reason. But some Supreme Court justices are committed to "originalism," arguing that the meaning of the Constitution is settled by how it was publicly understood when it was ratified. Originalists insist that their approach is dictated by the Constitution. That, Sunstein argues, is a big mistake. The Constitution doesn't contain instructions for its own interpretation. Any approach to constitutional interpretation needs to be defended in terms of its broad effects--what it does to our rights and our institutions. It must respect those rights and institutions--and safeguard the conditions for democracy itself."
해제	publisher's website.
주제명(단체명)	United States. --Supreme Court. United States. --Supreme Court.
주제명(지명)	United States. --fast
일반주제명	Constitutional law --United States. Law --United States --Interpretation and construction. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General. Constitutional law. Law --Interpretation and construction.
언어	영어
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