Against Constitutional Originalism - A Historical Critique

A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority

About the author

Jonathan Gienapp is associate professor of history and law at Stanford University. He has published widely on the Constitution in American life and is the author of the prizewinning The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Gienapp
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9780300265859
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26585-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general