Interpreting the Constitution / Kent Greenawalt.
2015
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Interpreting the Constitution / Kent Greenawalt.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Call Number
KF4550 .G737 2015
ISBN
9780199756155 (hardback : alk. paper)
0199756155 (hardback : alk. paper)
0199756155 (hardback : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 502 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)900869705
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
vii
pt. I
GENERAL THEMES
1.
The Nature of Constitutions: Basic Questions about Their Interpretation
3
2.
Multiple Interpretive Criteria
20
3.
Original Understanding: What Is Relevant and How Much Does It Count?
43
4.
Employing Multiple Standards
68
5.
Neutral Principles or "Objective" Standards: Their Relevance and Attainability
87
pt. II
A POIGNANT ILLUSTRATION
6.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
107
pt. III
ALLOCATIONS OF POWERS
7.
Federal Separation of Powers
137
8.
Federal Powers
168
pt. IV
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND NORMS OF EQUALITY
9.
Freedom of Speech and the Press
195
10.
The Religion Clauses
242
11.
Criminal Process: The Right to Counsel, Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, and the Privilege against Self-incrimination
282
12.
Equal Protection
336
Conclusion
369
Notes
385
Cases
467
Index
477