Antonin Scalia and American constitutionalism : the historical significance of a judicial icon / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purcell, Edward A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Scalia, Antonin, 1936-2016--Influence.

Scalia, Antonin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is a critical study of Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence, his work on the U.S. Supreme Court, and his significance for an understanding of American constitutionalism. After tracing Scalia's emergence as a hero of the political right and his opposition to many of the decisions of the Warren Court, this book examines his general jurisprudential theory of originalism and textualism, arguing that he failed to produce either the objective method he claimed or the "correct" constitutional results he promised. The book argues that Scalia applied his jurisprudential theories in inconsistent ways and often ignored, twisted, or abandoned the interpretive methods he proclaimed, in most cases reaching results that were consistent with "conservative" politics and the ideology of the post-Reagan Republican Party.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 28, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-750879-0

0-19-750877-4