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A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn´t Mean What It Meant Before
Cass R. Sunstein
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Description for A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn´t Mean What It Meant Before
Paperback. Proposes a way of interpreting the Constitution of US, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. This book illuminates the underpinnings of constitutionalism itself, and shows that ours is indeed a Constitution, not of any particular generation, but of many minds. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex relations to gun rights, Sunstein shows how the meaning of the Constitution is reestablished in every generation as new social commitments and ideas compel us ... Read more
The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex relations to gun rights, Sunstein shows how the meaning of the Constitution is reestablished in every generation as new social commitments and ideas compel us ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691152424
SKU
V9780691152424
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About Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein is currently on leave from his position as the Felix Frankfurter Professor at Harvard Law School to serve as Administrator of the Office of Regulation and Information Policy in the Obama administration. His many books include "Republic.com 2.0" (Princeton), "Worst-Case Scenarios", and "Nudge".
Reviews for A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn´t Mean What It Meant Before
Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers "Applying ... insights to the field of constitutional law, the book develops, in elegant and careful prose, a novel collection of arguments within their discipline. The author [has] raised a number of fresh and controversial issues, and, as a result, [his] work is certain to ... Read more