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Record Nr.

UNINA9910671826503321

Autore

McIntosh Simeon C. R.

Titolo

Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory / / Simeon C.R. McIntosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston ; ; Miami : , : The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

976-8167-67-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 398 pages)

Disciplina

342.729

Soggetti

Constitutional law - West Indies, British - Philosophy

Constitutional law - United States - Philosophy

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.