01797     2200217   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020002200097041000800119082001100127084001700138100002100155245011500176260005100291300002500342520112200367650004001489990002501529990002501554INLIS00000000000294620221102025248  a0010-0520002946221102                |          | eng    a978-0-691-15242-4  aeng  a342.73  a342.73 SUN c0 aSunstein, Cass R12aConstitution of Many Minds :bWhy the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What it Meant Before /cCass R Sunstein  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,c2009  axi, 225 p. ;c24 cm.  aThe future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex relations to gun rights, Sunstein shows how the meaning of the Constitution is reestablished in every generation as new social commitments and ideas compel us to reassess our fundamental beliefs. He focuses on three approaches to the Constitution--traditionalism, which grounds the document's meaning in long-standing social practices, not necessarily in the views of the founding generation; populism, which insists that judges should respect contemporary public opinion; and cosmopolitanism, which looks at how foreign courts address constitutional questions, and which suggests that the meaning of the Constitution turns on what other nations do. 4aConstitutional law --United States.  a22205/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22205/MKRI-P/XI-2011