Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

Name: Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
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ISBN: 9780307263131

ISBN-10: 0307263134

ISBN-13: 9780307263131

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephen G. Breyer

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This book," "based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term " active liberty" as a sharing of the nation' s sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to a living and changing society rather than as an arsenal of rigid legal means for binding and restricting it, Justice Breyer argues that the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems. Giving us examples of this approach in…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


The Theme: Active Liberty


The Theme Considered...


...as Falling Within an Interpretive Tradition...


...and Consistent with the Constitution's History


Applications


Speech


Federalism


Privacy


Affirmative Action


Statutory Interpretation


Administrative Law


Recapitulation


A Serious Objection


Epilogue


Notes


Index