Foundations of American Constitutionalism

ISBN-13: 9780195059397 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 338 str.

David A. J. Richards

Opis

In writing the constitution, the Founders combined a Lockean theory of politically legitimate power with the political science they had learned from Machiavelli, Harrington, Hume, and Montesquieu to articulate a new conception of constitutional argument. Examining the Founders' humanist analytical methods and working assumptions, this book combines history, political philosophy, and interpretive practice as it demonstrates an alternative exegesis of the Constitution. It clarifies a wide range of interpretive issues of federalism, enumerated rights (religious liberty and free speech), unenumerated rights (the constitutional right to privacy), and equal protection.

Recenzje

'Richards' interpretive theory is persuasive. His broad, humanistic, interdisciplinary approach is a very attractive one. There is much material for thought here.' Roberta Sue Alexander, University of Dayton, History, Summer 1992

O autorze

Author of Toleration and the Constitution (OUP 1986)