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Justice in Plainclothes : A Theory of American Constitutional Practice.
Title:
Justice in Plainclothes : A Theory of American Constitutional Practice.
Author:
Sager, Lawrence G.
ISBN:
9780300129199
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Puzzle of Our Constitutional Practice -- Chapter 1. Accounts of Our Constitutional Practice -- Chapter 2. Judges as Agents of the Past: The Burdens of Originalism -- Chapter 3. Enactment-Centered History as an Originalist Supplementation of the Text -- Chapter 4. Three Rescue Attempts: Lean, Middling, and Thick -- Chapter 5. Enter Partnership: The Justice-Seeking Account of Our Constitutional Practice -- Chapter 6. The Thinness of Constitutional Law and the Underenforcement Thesis -- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Salience of Underenforcement -- Chapter 8. The Domain of Constitutional Justice -- Chapter 9. The Birth Logic of a Democratic Constitution -- Chapter 10. Democracy and the Justice-Seeking Constitution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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