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Original Sin : Clarence Thomas and the Failure of the Constitutional Conservatives / Samuel A. Marcosson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcosson, Samuel A.
- Series:
- Critical America Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--History.
- United States.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers' and ratifiers' intent. Original Sin argues that the ""jurisprudence of original intent,"" represented on the current Supreme Court by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, has failed on its own terms. Attempts to determine the framers' intent have not brought greater determinacy and legitimacy to the process of constitutional interpretation. Instead, the method has been marked by the very flaws-including self-interested reasoning and the manipulation of doctrine-that originalists argue marre
- Contents:
- I never lie
- Multitudes in me
- Hypothesis testing
- States of grace?
- The smoking gun
- A bridge over troubled waters?
- Any more such victories
- Legitimation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814763100
- 0814763103
- 9780814764206
- 0814764207
- OCLC:
- 779828227
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