The constitution & the pride of reason / Steven D. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Law--Political aspects.

Law.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Other Title:

Constitution and the pride of reason

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Has constitutional law become merely the confused but self-important incantations of a secular priesthood? This volume offers an iconoclastic assessment of American constitutionalists from Madison and Jefferson to Dworkin and Bork, as well as a provocative overview of both the aspirations and the tragic failures of American constitutionalism.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Constitution of Reason; One: Old Bags and New Wine: The Reason of the Founders; Two: The Special Dispensation of Reason and the Legal Constitution; Three: The Framers' Fatal Flaw; Four: From the Legalistic Constitution to the Constitution of Principle; Five: After the Fall: Regulatory Reason; Six: Constitutional Reasoning, Constitutional Sophistry; Seven: Rationalizing the Constitution; Epilogue: The Constitution of Babel; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-195) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771871-X

1-280-47095-X

0-19-535356-0

1-60256-244-X

OCLC:

437173363