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000453064 1001_ $$aWilkinson, J. Harvie,$$cIII,$$d1944-
000453064 24510 $$aCosmic constitutional theory :$$bwhy Americans are losing their inalienable right to self-governance /$$cJ. Harvie Wilkinson III.
000453064 260__ $$aOxford [UK] ;$$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2012.
000453064 300__ $$axii, 161 p. ;$$c23 cm.
000453064 4901_ $$aInalienable rights series
000453064 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [117]-154) and index.
000453064 5050_ $$aLiving constitutionalism : activism unleashed -- Originalism : activism masquerading as restraint -- Political process theory : a third way down the rabbit hole -- Pragmatism : activism through antitheory -- The failure of cosmic constitutional theory.
000453064 520__ $$a"American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging volume, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic constitutional theories that, for all their value, are undermining self-governance. Thinkers as diverse as Justices William Brennan and Antonin Scalia, Professor John Hart Ely, Judges Robert Bork and Richard Posner, have all produced seminal interpretations of our Founding document, but ones that promise to imbue courts with unprecedented powers. While crediting the theorists for the sparkling quality of their thoughts, Judge Wilkinson argues they will slowly erode the role of representative institutions in America and leave our children bereft of democratic liberty. The loser in all the theoretical fireworks is the old and honorable tradition of judicial restraint. The judicial modesty once practiced by Learned Hand, John Harlan, and Oliver Wendell Holmes has given way to competing schools of liberal and conservative activism seeking sanctuary in Living Constitutionalism, Originalism, Process Theory, or the supposedly anti-theoretical creed of Pragmatism. Each of these seemingly disparate theories promises their followers an intellectually respectable route to congenial political outcomes from the bench. Judge Wilkinson calls for a plainer, simpler, self-disciplined commitment to judicial restraint and democratic governance, a course that alas may be impossible so long as the cosmic constitutionalists so dominate contemporary legal thought"--Provided by publisher.
000453064 650_0 $$aConstitutional law$$zUnited States$$xPhilosophy.
000453064 650_0 $$aConstitutional law$$xPolitical aspects$$zUnited States.
000453064 650_0 $$aConstitutional law$$zUnited States.
000453064 650_0 $$aSelf-determination, National$$zUnited States.
000453064 830_0 $$aInalienable rights series.
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