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Negotiating the Constitution : the earliest debates over original intent

No concept sparks more controversy in constitutional debate than "original intent." Offering a legal historian's approach to the subject, this book demonstrates that the framers deliberately obscured one of their more important decisions. Joseph M...
Print Book, English, 2005
Cornell University Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], Ithaca, N.Y., Bristol, 2005
x, 315 pages ; 24 cm
9780801472718, 9780801435584, 0801472717, 0801435587
61217783
Originally published: 1999