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The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism
The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism
Author: Gary L. McDowell
For much of its history, the interpretation of the United States Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed by Chief Justice John Marshall to be "the most sacred rule of interpretation." Since the end of the nineteenth century, a radically new understand...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521140911
ISBN-10: 0521140919
Publication Date: 6/28/2010
Pages: 432
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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