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The democratic constitution : experimentalism and interpretation / Brian E. Butler.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226474649
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 342.73029 23
LOC classification:
  • KF4541 .B985 2018
Online resources: The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpreter of constitutional law took hold only relatively recently. Drawing on the pragmatic ideals characterised by Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, Charles Sabel, and Richard Posner. Brian E. Butler shows how this conception is inherently problematic for a healthy democracy. Butler offers an alternative democratic conception of constitutional law, 'democratic experimentalism', and applies it in a thorough reconstruction of Supreme Court cases across the centuries.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpreter of constitutional law took hold only relatively recently. Drawing on the pragmatic ideals characterised by Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, Charles Sabel, and Richard Posner. Brian E. Butler shows how this conception is inherently problematic for a healthy democracy. Butler offers an alternative democratic conception of constitutional law, 'democratic experimentalism', and applies it in a thorough reconstruction of Supreme Court cases across the centuries.

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