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UNINA9910671826503321 |
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McIntosh Simeon C. R. |
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Titolo |
Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory / / Simeon C.R. McIntosh |
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Kingston ; ; Miami : , : The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 398 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Constitutional law - West Indies, British - Philosophy |
Constitutional law - United States - Philosophy |
Hermeneutics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Toward a West Indian hermeneutics: the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice -- 1. Legal hermeneutics: a philosophical critique -- 2. Controversial propositions of law and the positivist embarrassment: the Hart/Dworkin debate reconsidered -- 3. On reading the Ninth Amendment: a reply to Raoul Berger -- 4. A poetic for law: constitutional theory as metaphor -- 5. Reading Dred Scott, Plessy, and Brown: toward a constitutional hermeneutics -- 6. West Indian constitutional discourse: a poetics of reconstruction. |
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