To Secure These Rights

The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation

Автор: Scott Douglas Gerber

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Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional int...

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Автор

Scott Douglas Gerber

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1995

страници

330

EAN

9780814730669

ISBN

0814730663

Enbook ID

04931265

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

567

Размери

152 x 229 x 25

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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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