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Law and the limits of reason / Adrian Vermeule.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vermeule, Adrian, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Methodology.
- Law.
- Law--United States--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Vermeule denies the view that the limits of reason counsel in favour of judges making 'living' constitutional law in the style of the common law. Instead, he proposes and defends a 'codified constitution' - a regime in which legislatures have the primary authority to develop constitutional law over time.
- Contents:
- The limits of reason in legal theory
- Many-minds arguments
- The constitutional common law : information aggregation
- The constitutional common law : evolution
- Justices and company
- Unintended consequences and constitutional amendments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045247-1
- 0-19-985539-0
- 1-282-73117-3
- 9786612731174
- 0-19-974515-3
- OCLC:
- 422767267
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