02146nam 2200517 450 991067182650332120170925035318.0976-8167-67-X(CKB)2670000000408932(SSID)ssj0001045371(PQKBManifestationID)12480990(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001045371(PQKBWorkID)11110334(PQKB)11397056(MiAaPQ)EBC5986536(PPN)187316015(EXLCZ)99267000000040893220191220d2012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrReading text and polity hermeneutics and constitutional theory /Simeon C.R. McIntoshKingston ;Miami :The Caribbean Law Publishing Company,[2012]©20121 online resource (ix, 398 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph976-8167-57-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.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.Constitutional lawWest Indies, BritishPhilosophyConstitutional lawUnited StatesPhilosophyHermeneuticsConstitutional lawPhilosophy.Constitutional lawPhilosophy.Hermeneutics.342.729McIntosh Simeon C. R.1334513MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910671826503321Reading text and polity3050040UNINA