Justice in plainclothes : a theory of American constitutional practice / Lawrence G. Sager.
2004
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Title
Justice in plainclothes : a theory of American constitutional practice / Lawrence G. Sager.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Call Number
KF4550 .S24 2004
ISBN
0300101309 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)54400069
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-239) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : the puzzle of our constitutional practice
1
Ch. 1
Accounts of our constitutional practice
12
Ch. 2
Judge as agents of the past : the burdens of originalism
30
Ch. 3
Enactment-centered history as an originalist supplementation of the text
42
Ch. 4
Three rescue attempts : lean, middling, and thick
58
Ch. 5
Enter partnership : the justice-seeking account of our constitutional practice
70
Ch. 6
The thinness of constitutional law and the underenforcement thesis
84
Ch. 7
The conceptual salience of underenforcement
93
Ch. 8
The domain of constitutional justice
129
Ch. 9
The birth logic of a democratic constitution
161
Ch. 10
Democracy and the justice-seeking constitution
194