TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGinnis,John O.
AU  - Rappaport,Michael B.
TI  - Originalism and the good constitution /John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport
SN  - 9780674726260
AV  - KF4552 .O754 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - United States
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Origin (Philosophy)
KW  - Judicial review
KW  - Law, other
KW  - Law
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Originalism : Its Discontents and the Supermajoritarian Solution --; The Nature of the Argument --; The Supermajoritarian Theory of Constitutionalism --; The Compliance of the US Constitution with Desirable Supermajority Rules --; The Continuing Desirability of an Old Supermajoritarian Constitution --; Supermajoritarian Failure, Including the Exclusion of African Americans and Women --; Original Methods Originalism --; Original Methods versus Constitutional Construction --; Precedent, Originalism, and the Constitution --; The Normative Theory of Precedent --; Imagining an Originalist Future; 2; b
N2  - John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport argue that the text of the Constitution and its Amendments should be adhered to by the Supreme Court because it was enacted by supermajorities. A text approved by supermajorities has special value in a democracy because it has unusually wide support and tends to maximize the welfare of the greatest number
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