TY - BOOK AU - Farber,Daniel A. AU - Sherry,Suzanna TI - Desperately seeking certainty: the misguided quest for constitutional foundations SN - 9780226238104 AV - KF4550 .F367 2002 U1 - 342.73 23 PY - 2002/// CY - Chicago, [Ill.] PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Constitutional law KW - United States KW - Philosophy KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - United States of America, USA KW - thema KW - Jurisprudence & general issues KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - Constitutional & administrative law: general N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'Desperately Seeking Certainty' attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question UR - http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226238104.001.0001/upso-9780226238081 ER -