Download or read book Constitutional Construction written by Keith E. Whittington and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the process of constitutional interpretation. But according to Keith Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy. In so doing, it is also dependent on political actors, both to formulate authoritative constitutional requirements and to enforce those fundamental settlements in the future. Whittington characterizes this process, by which constitutional meaning is shaped within politics at the same time that politics is shaped by the Constitution, as one of construction as opposed to interpretation. Whittington goes on to argue that ambiguities in the constitutional text and changes in the political situation push political actors to construct their own constitutional understanding. The construction of constitutional meaning is a necessary part of the political process and a regular part of our nation's history, how a democracy lives with a written constitution. The Constitution both binds and empowers government officials. Whittington develops his argument through intensive analysis of four important cases: the impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson, the nullification crisis, and reforms of presidential-congressional relations during the Nixon presidency.
Download or read book Constitutional Construction written by Chester James Antieau and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Courts at times speak of the need for 'interpretation' of constitutions, professedly being concerned only with the 'meaning' of the words employed in the organic laws...However, the far greater task of constitutional adjudication is one requiring 'construction' of the fundamental law. This term is of broader scope than 'interpretation' and properly refers to that legal significance which is to be given to constitutional clauses and words...Approaches of the courts to constitutional construction can be categorised as (a) historical, (b) philosophical, and (c) sociological...There are a halfhundred guides to construction (customarily referred to as 'the canons of construction') which are regularly utilized by the courts of most of the world in dealing with constitutional language, and these guides are treated at length in the second chapter. Succeeding chapters investigate fully the historical and philosophical materials used by the courts in constitutional construction, as well as the methodology of interessenjurisprudenz or the jurisprudence of interests in adjudicating constitutional controversies." -- from the Introduction, p. xxiii-xxiv.
Download or read book A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Construction of Statutory and Constitutional Law written by Theodore Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating in Civil Conflict written by Haider Ala Hamoudi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country’s first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Iraq are far from ideal: Iraq has long been racked by ethnic and sectarian conflict, which intensified following the American invasion and continues today. This severe division, which often erupted into violence, would not seem to bode well for the fate of democracy. So how is it that Iraq was able to surmount its sectarianism to draft a constitution that speaks to the conflicting and largely incompatible ideological view of the Sunnis, Shi’ah, and Kurds? Haider Ala Hamoudi served in 2009 as an adviser to Iraq’s Constitutional Review Committee, and he argues here that the terms of the Iraqi Constitution are sufficiently capacious to be interpreted in a variety of ways, allowing it to appeal to the country’s three main sects despite their deep disagreements. While some say that this ambiguity avoids the challenging compromises that ultimately must be made if the state is to survive, Hamoudi maintains that to force these compromises on issues of central importance to ethnic and sectarian identity would almost certainly result in the imposition of one group’s views on the others. Drawing on the original negotiating documents, he shows that this feature of the Constitution was not an act of evasion, as is sometimes thought, but a mark of its drafters’ awareness in recognizing the need to permit the groups the time necessary to develop their own methods of working with one another over time.
Download or read book Powers of the American People Congress President and Courts written by Masuji Miyakawa and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States constitutional law State constitutions Statutory construction written by Albert Hutchinson Putney and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Construction of Statutory and Constitutional Law written by Theodore Sedgwick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and Constitutional Construction written by E. Fitch Smith and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Challenge of Originalism written by Grant Huscroft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originalism is a force to be reckoned with in constitutional interpretation. At one time a monolithic theory of constitutional interpretation, contemporary originalism has developed into a sophisticated family of theories about how to interpret and reason with a constitution. Contemporary originalists harness the resources of linguistic, moral, and political philosophy to propose methodologies for the interpretation of constitutional texts and provide reasons for fidelity to those texts. The essays in this volume, which includes contributions from the flag bearers of several competing schools of constitutional interpretation, provides an introduction to the development of originalist thought, showcases the great range of contemporary originalist constitutional scholarship, and situates competing schools of thought in dialogue with each other. They also make new contributions to the methodological and normative disputes between originalists and non-originalists, and among originalists themselves.
Download or read book Powers of the American People Congress President and Courts written by Masuji Miyakawa and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated written by John Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Constitutional Law written by Theodore Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Construction and Interpretation and Notes on the Constitution written by Thomas Henry Calvert and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws written by Henry Campbell Black and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Interpretation written by Keith E. Whittington and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its detailed and wide-ranging explorations in history, philosophy, and law, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how the Constitution ought to be interpreted and what it means to live under a constitutional government."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws with a Chapter on the Interpretation of Judicial Decisions and the Doctrine of Precedents written by Henry Campbell Black and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of first edition (1896). "The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted canons and rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory. In accordance with the general plan of the Hornbook Series, these rules have been formulated somewhat after the manner of a code, expressed in brief black-letter paragraphs numbered consecutively throughout the book, and explained, developed, and illustrated in the text." --Preface, iii. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK [1860-1927] was also the author of the standard American law dictionary, A Dictionary of Law Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern Including the Principal Terms of International, Constitutional, and Commercial Law, first published in 1891, and other works.
