Balkin, J. M.
Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-287) and index.
- Faith and story in American constitutional law — Just a story — Legitimacy and faith — Idolatry and faith — Fidelity and faith — The law of equality is the law of inequality — Wrong the day it was decided — How I became an originalist.
- Political constitutions, hammered out by imperfect human beings in periods of intense political controversy, are always compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate, argues this book, is Americans’ enduring faith that the Constitution’s promises can someday be redeemed, and the constitutional system be made a more perfect union. –from publisher description
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