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Akhil Reed Amar |
| ISBN: | 9780465029570 0465029574 |
| Número OCLC: | 778420395 |
| Descripción: | xvi, 615 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contenido: | Reading between the lines : America's implicit constitution -- Heeding the deed : America's enacted constitution -- Hearing the people : America's lived constitution -- Confronting modern case law : America's "warranted" constitution -- Putting precedent in its place : America's doctrinal constitution -- Honoring the icons : America's symbolic constitution -- "Remembering the ladies" : America's feminist constitution -- Following Washington's lead : America's "Georgian" constitution -- Interpreting government practices : America's institutional constitution -- Joining the party : America's partisan constitution -- Doing the right thing : America's conscientious constitution -- Envisioning the future : America's unfinished constitution. |
| Responsabilidad: | Akhil Reed Amar. |
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"Washington Post"<br>"In "America's Unwritten Constitution," Akhil Reed Amar aims high and has produced a masterful, readable book that constitutes one of the best, most creative treatments of the U.S. Constitution in decades.... [The book] is filled with thought-provoking material and fun vignettes, suitable for a wide audience.... Amar's approach is refreshing.... Amar makes a creative case that America's written Constitution and its unwritten Constitution, since the beginning of the nation, have fit snugly together to form a single, more perfect union." <br>"Wall Street Journal"<br>"Akhil Reed Amar is a rarity: a progressive law professor who is unafraid of the text of the Constitution.... In his ambitious new book, "America's Unwritten Constitution," he examines the paradox of needing to go beyond the text in order to faithfully follow the text.... His is a 'holistic' interpretation, one that rejects reading passages or clauses of the text in isolation from the document as a whole. He is masterfully creative in finding overarching themes that tie the disparate clauses together in novel and sometimes counterintuitive ways.... A highly engaging and thought-provoking book." <br>"New York Times Book Review"<br>"In "America's Unwritten Constitution," Akhil Reed Amar, a commendably unorthodox and, in some ways, iconoclastic constitutional scholar at Yale Law School, bucks dominant opinions on both sides of the political spectrum. He contends that the written Constitution points to an unwritten one, and he argues that we can interpret with both intellectual honesty and analytical rigor." <br>"Boston Globe"<br>"The Constitution has been described as both binding law and aspirational treatise.... Akhil Amar, a Yale law professor and one of contemporary America's most brilliant constitutional scholars, [suggests] in his latest, and best, book, "America's Unwritten Constitution," that the issue is not an 'either-or' question.... As a lawyer and constitutional righ Leer más
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