Justice in plainclothes, a theory of American constitutional practice, Lawrence G. Sager
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Justice in plainclothes, a theory of American constitutional practice, Lawrence G. Sager
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-239) and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Justice in plainclothes
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bibliography
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54400069
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Lawrence G. Sager
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a theory of American constitutional practice
Table Of Contents
The puzzle of our constitutional practice -- 1. Accounts of our constitutional practice -- 2. Judges as agents of the past: the burdens of originalism -- 3. Enactment-centered history as an originalist supplementation of the text -- 4. Three rescue attempts: lean, middling, and thick -- 5. Enter partnership: the justice-seeking account of our constitutional practice -- 6. The thinness of constitutional law and the underenforcement thesis -- 7. The conceptual salience of underenforcement -- 8. The domain of constitutional justice -- 9. The birth logic of a democratic constitution -- 10. Democracy and the justice-seeking constitution
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