02246     2200289   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001900097041000800116082001500124084002100139100002300160245005600183260002800239300003300267520142800300650001901728650001901747650004001766990002501806990002501831990002501856990002501881990002501906990002501931INLIS00000000000939120221109104343  a0010-0520009391221109                |          | eng    a978-0674004641  aeng  a347.732 62  a347.732 62 FAL i0 aFallon, Richard H.1 aImplementing the Constitution. /cRichard H. Fallon  aCambridge, Mass.,c2001  ax, 186 p. ; 25 cm. ;c25 cm.  aThis book argues that the Supreme Court performs two functions. The first is to identify the Constitution’s idealized “meaning.” The second is to develop tests and doctrines to realize that meaning in practice. Bridging the gap between the two—implementing the Constitution—requires moral vision, but also practical wisdom and common sense, ingenuity, and occasionally a willingness to make compromises. In emphasizing the Court’s responsibility to make practical judgments, Implementing the Constitution takes issue with the two positions that have dominated recent debates about the Court’s proper role. Constitutional “originalists” maintain that the Court’s essential function is to identify the “original understanding” of constitutional language and then apply it deductively to current problems. This position is both unwise and unworkable, the book argues. It also critiques well-known accounts according to which the Court is concerned almost exclusively with matters of moral and constitutional principle. Implementing the Constitution bridges the worlds of constitutional theory, political theory, and constitutional practice. It illuminates the Supreme Court’s decision of actual cases and its development of well-known doctrines. It is a doctrinal study that yields jurisprudential insights and a contribution to constitutional theory that is closely tied to actual judicial practice. 4aUnited States. 4aSupreme Court. 4aConstitutional law --United States.  a22301/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22302/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22302/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22301/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22301/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22302/MKRI-P/XI-2011