Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700614478 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"In this masterful study, Rossum not only elucidates Scalia's theory of textualism and originalism, but shows how it plays out in a wide range of situations. Makes a persuasive case that Scalia's influence--like that of other great dissenters--may well reach its height among the next generation of lawyers."
Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is widely regarded as the most controversial member of the Court.This book is the first comprehensive, reasoned, and sympathetic analysis of how Scalia has decided cases during his entire twenty-year Supreme Court tenure. Ralph Rossum focuses on Scalia's more than 600 Supreme Court opinions and dissents—carefully wrought, passionately argued, and filled with well-turned phrases—which portray him as an eloquent defender of an "original meaning" jurisprudence. He suggests that Scalia displays such a keen interest in defending federalism that he sometimes departs from text and tradition, and reveals that he has disagreed with other justices most often in decisions involving the meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause. Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. circuit, his major law review articles as a law professor and judge, and his provocative book, A Matter of Interpretation.Rossum reveals Scalia's understanding of key issues confronting today's Court, such as the separation of powers, federalism, the free speech and press and religion clauses of the First Amendment, and the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. He also includ
Alan Tarr) the two-volume American Constitutional Law. Ralph A. . Rossum is Henry Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism and director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. Among his numerous other books are Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy
Great book J. Whitney quite educational .