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Author Arkes, Hadley.

Title Beyond the Constitution / Hadley Arkes.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  342.73029 A721B    Check Shelf
Description 278 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.
Contents The "Reasoning Spirit" of the Constitution -- Moving Beyond the Text -- On the Dangers of a Bill of Rights: Restating the Federalist Argument -- Life among the Clauses -- The Sweep of Civil Rights and the Maze of Federalism -- On the Art of "Incorporating" Rights -- Incriminations: Self, and Others -- Neonates and Reprobates: The Reach of a Government Competent to Its Ends.
Summary "Hadley Arkes argues that it is necessary to move "beyond the Constitution" to the principles that stood antecedent to the text if we are to understand the text and apply the Constitution to the cases that arise every day in our law Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Constitutional law -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Constitutional history -- United States.
United States -- Constitutional law -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
Constitutional law -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00875819
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Staatsrecht.
Ethiek.
Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3
Verfassungsrecht (DE-588)4062801-2
United States (DE-588)4078704-7
Bürgerrecht (DE-588)4146877-6
United States.
Droit constitutionnel - États-Unis - Aspect moral.
Droits de l'homme - États-Unis.
États-Unis - Histoire constitutionnelle.
Indexed Term Constitutional law
United States
ISBN 0691078505 (alk. paper)
9780691078502 (alk. paper)
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