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Posner 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-09073-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChronology of the Deadlock --$tGlossary of Election Terms --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. The Road to Florida 2000 --$tChapter 2. The Deadlocked Election --$tChapter 3. The Postelection Struggle in the Courts --$tChapter 4. Critiquing the Participants --$tChapter 5. Consequences and Reforms --$tConclusion --$tIndex 330 $aThe 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts. It produced a deadlock that dragged out the result for over a month, and consequences--real and imagined--that promise to drag on for years. In the first in-depth study of the election and its litigious aftermath, Judge Posner surveys the history and theory of American electoral law and practice, analyzes which Presidential candidate ''really'' won the popular vote in Florida, surveys the litigation that ensued, evaluates the courts, the lawyers, and the commentators, and ends with a blueprint for reforming our Presidential electoral practices.The book starts with an overview of the electoral process, including its history and guiding theories. It looks next at the Florida election itself, exploring which candidate ''really'' won and whether this is even a meaningful question. The focus then shifts to the complex litigation, both state and federal, provoked by the photo finish. On the basis of the pragmatic jurisprudence that Judge Posner has articulated and defended in his previous writings, this book offers an alternative justification for the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore while praising the Court for averting the chaotic consequences of an unresolved deadlock.Posner also evaluates the performance of the lawyers who conducted the post-election litigation and of the academics who commented on the unfolding drama. He argues that neither Gore's nor Bush's lawyers blundered seriously, but that the reaction of the legal professoriat to the litigation exposed serious flaws in the academic practice of constitutional law. While rejecting such radical moves as abolishing the Electoral College or creating a national ballot, Posner concludes with a detailed plan of feasible reforms designed to avoid a repetition of the 2000 election fiasco.Lawyers, political scientists, pundits, and politicians are waiting to hear what Judge Posner has to say. 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THE MARKS OF A SUPREME BOOK; II. AN EPIC OF REDEMPTION; the author; peril of misinterpretation; its truth shaped by the imagination; Epic or drama?; Belongs to the literature of power; III. HOW DID A LITERATURE SO GREAT COME FROM A PEOPLE SO SMALL?; Effects of inbreeding and selection; IV. MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH DIFFERENTIATED THE HEBREWS FROM OTHER PEOPLES OF THEIR TIME; Compared with Egypt 327 $aIsrael the first nation to outgrow the primitive mindTherefore they wrote the world's first history, believed in an ethical God, had the forward look; V. THE LITERARY QUALITIES OF THE HEBREW MIND; The Hebrew mind intuitive; described emotions by picturing them; Truth emotionally conceived and rhythmically expressed; VI. HOW THE HEBREW WRITINGS BECAME AN ENGLISH CLASSIC; VII. THE DICTION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE; Contrasted with English poetry; with modern translations; PART II LITERARY VALUES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS; VIII. THE EARLIEST HISTORIES EVER WRITTEN 327 $aGenesis-Kings contains the world's first historyWhy the Hebrews wrote the first history; Greek and Hebrew histories compared.; The value of this history; IX. THE HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; Genesis: the myths and legends of a great people; Exodus: a wonder-working providence; Leviticus: the book of the law; Numbers: history written as homily; Deuteronomy: law that is literature; Joshua: history shaped by tradition; Judges: the Dark Ages; I-II Samuel: biographical history; I-11 Kings: rereligion interfering with truth; Chronicles-Nehemiah: history with priestly bias 327 $aX. BIBLICAL POETRYAncient psalmody, Egyptian and Babylonian; Sources of their power; Nature and meaning of Lamentations and the Song of Songs; XI. BIBLICAL POETRY (continued); The Book of Job; Appraisal of values; XII. THE PROPHETS; Conditions calling them forth; The burden and literary ability of each prophet from Amos to Malachi; The permanent contribution of the prophets to religion; Their unique power and their limitations; XIII. THE HUMANISTS OF ISRAEL; The Book of Proverbs; Ecclesiastes; XIV. PROSE FICTION; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; PART III THE LITERARY QUALITIES OFTHE NEW TESTAMENT 327 $aXV. THE GOSPELSXVI. THE SAYINGS OF JESUS AS LITERATURE; XVII. PAUL AS A WRITER; XVIII. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY AND LETTERS; Character of each of the general epistles; XIX. APOCALYPTICAL WRITINGS; The Book of Revelation; INDEX 330 $a

The religious associations surrounding the Bible make it difficult for the general reader to appreciate, in its full purity, the value which the Scriptures bear as literature, and as an epic in no way inferior, in cultural worth, to the greatest works of Greece and Rome. Dealing as it does with elementary passions and principles, the English Bible is, in the author's view, the greatest book of all the ages. This book, first published in 1931, will be of interest to students of literature and religious studies.

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