To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation - Couverture rigide

Gerber, Scott Douglas

 
9780814730669: To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0814730663 ISBN 13 : 9780814730669
Editeur : New York University Press, 1995

Synopsis

To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott Douglas Gerber here argues that the Constitution of the United States should be interpreted in light of the natural rights political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that the Supreme Court is the institution of American government that should be primarily responsible for identifying and applying that philosophy in American life.
Importantly, the theory advanced in this book--what Gerber calls liberal originalism--is neither consistently liberal nor consistently conservative in the modern conception of those terms. Rather, the theory is liberal in the classic sense of viewing the basic purpose of government to be safeguarding the natural rights of individuals. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. In essence, Gerber maintains that the Declaration articulates the philosophical ends of our nation and that the Constitution embodies the means to effectuate those ends. Gerber's analysis reveals that the Constitution cannot be properly understood without recourse to history, political philosophy, and law.

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott Douglas Gerber, Ph.D., J.D., is author of To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation and editor of Seriatim: The Supreme Court before John Marshall, both available from New York University Press. He teaches at Ohio Northern University College of Law.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814730663
ISBN 13 
9780814730669
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
330
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  0814730892 ISBN 13 :  9780814730898
Editeur : New York University Press, 1996
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