Originalism''s Promise - A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution

Provides the first natural law justification for an originalist interpretation of the American Constitution.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. A Description of Originalism: 1. A brief history of originalism in American constitutional interpretation; 2. The constitutional communication model of originalism; Part II. Originalism is the Best Explanation of our Existing Constitutional Practice and the Most Normatively Attractive Theory of Constitutional Interpretation: 3. Originalism is the best explanation for our existing constitutional practice; 4. Originalism best advances Americans' human flourishing: the law-as-coordination account of originalism; 5. Conclusion; Index.

About the author

Lee J. Strang is John W. Stoepler Professor of Law and Values at the College of Law, University of Toledo, Ohio. In 2015, Professor Strang was a visiting scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and in 2016 he was appointed to the Ohio Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. The University of Toledo, Ohio awarded Professor Strang its Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award in 2017. During the 2018–19 academic year, Professor Strang was a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, New Jersey.

Summary

Originalism's Promise helps Americans know their own Constitution and shows why their reverence for it, its Framers, and its legal system, is sound and valuable. The book offers a way out of the bitter fights represented by the Kavanaugh hearings, and marries the Constitution to natural law.

Product details

• Authors: Lee J. Strang, Lee J. (University of Toledo Strang
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108468732
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46873-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, LAW / Constitutional, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general