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 LAW General Collection - 2nd Floor  K3165 .C44117 2022    AVAILABLE  
Author Chemerinsky, Erwin, author.
Title Worse than nothing : the dangerous fallacy of originalism / Erwin Chemerinsky.
OCLC 1310154267
ISBN 9780300259902 (hardcover)
0300259905 (hardcover)
(ePub ebook)
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
©2022.
Description xiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s Constitutional law -- Philosophy.
Law -- Interpretation and construction.
Origin (Philosophy)
Constitutional law -- United States.
Other
Subject heading/s		 POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch.
Constitutional law. (OCoLC)fst00875797
Constitutional law -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00875821
Law -- Interpretation and construction. (OCoLC)fst00993756
Origin (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01048180
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The rise of originalism -- The allure of originalism -- The epistemological problem -- The incoherence problem -- The abhorrence problem -- The modernity problem -- The hypocrisy problem -- In defense of non-originalism -- We should be afraid.
Summary 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.
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