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Storm over the constitution

This volume examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of "original intent". According to legal scholars a jurisprudence of original intent requires that judges bring no theory to the interpretation of the Constitution.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., ©1999
xl, 167 pages ; 24 cm
9780739100400, 9780739100417, 0739100408, 0739100416
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Introduction: Harry Jaffa and original intent jurisprudence / Edward J. Erler
The closing of the conservative mind: a dissenting opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork
Whatever happened to the emperor's clothes? : Jaffa replies to Bork
Appendix to: Whatever happened to the Emperor's Clothes?
Natural law, the Constitution, and Robert Bork
The Inkblot Constitution
Is the Constitution good? (And if so, why?)
Graglia's quarrel with God: atheism and nihilism masquerading as constitutional argument
Slaying the dragon of bad originalism: Jaffa answers Cooper
"The whole theory of democracy": Antonin Scalia, meet James Madison and friends
Afterword: Jaffa's quarrel with Bork: religious belief masqueraading as constitutional argument / Lino A. Graglia
Harry Jaffa's bad originalism / Charles J. Cooper