Whittington, Keith E.

Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent and Judicial Review

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ISBN 13:
9780700611416
author:
Whittington, Keith E.
format:
Paperback
publisher:
University Press of Kansas
language:
English
Publication Year:
1999
Pages:
316
Dimensions:
23.4 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
Genre:
Constitution: government & the state
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New
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Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review explores how the judiciary should interpret the Constitution. Keith Whittington examines what it means to interpret a written constitution and how the courts should go about that task.

Whittington considers the implications of faithfully interpreting our written Constitution, drawing on arguments from American history, political philosophy, and literary theory. He sympathetically examines critiques of originalism based on postmodern, hermeneutic, and literary theory, as well as common legal arguments against originalists.

This book offers a non-dogmatic understanding of originalist methods and their potential to reconcile with an appropriate understanding of legal interpretation, highlighting how originalism can help realize the democratic promise of the Constitution.

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