Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-200) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion. Reading the constitution for ourselves. The core disagreement : how should we read the constitution? -- Judicial review : is it legitimate and expansive, or questionable and limited? -- Rights : are they individual or collective? -- Federalism : must we have one national standard? -- Liberty : does the constitution invoke ordered liberty or pure liberty? -- Religion : is the constitution a religious or secular document? -- Transcendence : do transcendent principles exist in the constitution? -- Social facts : should the Court move ahead of society or wait for social change? -- Precedent : should we follow or break from the history of the Court? -- Completeness : what else do we need to read? -- Textualism -- Common law constitutionalism -- Originalism -- Living constitutionalism -- Comparing schools of interpretation -- Points of conflict & schools of thought in a landmark case : Roe v. Wade -- Contemporary landmark cases : from Phelps to Obamacare -- Conclusion. Reading the constitution for ourselves.
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