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Title: Worse Than Nothing
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
Author: Erwin Chemerinsky
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0300273983
EAN: 9780300273984
ISBN: 9780300273984
Publisher: Yale University Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 08/08/2023
Description: Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation
 
“Chemerinsky . . . offers a concise, point-by-point refutation of the theory [of originalism]. He argues that it cannot deliver what it promises—and if it could, no one would want what it is selling.”—David Cole, New York Review of Books
 
Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices explicitly embrace the originalist approach, as do increasing numbers of judges in the lower courts.
 
Noted legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gives a comprehensive analysis of the problems that make originalism unworkable as a method of constitutional interpretation. He argues that the framers themselves never intended constitutional interpretation to be inflexible and shows how it is often impossible to know what the “original intent” of any particular provision was. Perhaps worst of all, though its supporters tout it as a politically neutral and objective method, originalist interpretation tends to disappear when its results fail to conform to modern conservative ideology.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Release Year: 2023

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