02084     2200265   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001100123084001800134100002300152245008000175260005100255300002500306500002300331520125800354650004801612650006001660990002501720990002401745990002501769990002401794INLIS00000000000453320221103105740  a0010-0520004533221103                |          | eng    a0-52-184558-8  aeng  a342.73  a342.73 GOLD a0 aGoldford, Dennis J14aAmerican Constitution and the Debate Over Originalism /cDennis J. Goldford  aNew York :bCambriedge University Press,c2005  axi, 305 p. ;c24 cm.  aIndeks : p.301-305  aLocated at the intersection of law, political science, philosophy, and literary theory, this work of constitutional theory explores the nature of American constitutional interpretation through a reconsideration of the long-standing debate between the interpretive theories of originalism and nonorginalism. It traces that debates to a particular set of premises about the nature of language, interpretation, and objectivity, premises that raise the specter of unconstrained, unstructured constitutional interpretation that has hunted contemporary constitutional theory.The book presents the novel argument that a critique of the underlying premises of originalism dissolves not just originalism but nonoriginalism as well, which leads to the recognition that constitutional interpretation is already and always structured. It makes this argument in terms of the first principle of the American political system:By their fidelity to the Constitution, Americans are a textual people in that they live in and through the terms of a fundamental text. On the basis of this central idea, the book present both a new understanding of constitutional interpretation and an innovative account of the democratic legitimacy and binding capacity of the Constitution. 4aConstitutional Law-United States-Philosophy 4aJustice, Administration of (Roman law) - Popular works.  a09310/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a97811/MKRI-P/X-2008  a09310/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a97811/MKRI-P/X-2008