02158nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002300224082001500247100003200262245011700294246007200411264005200483300005900535336002600594337002600620338003600646500007300682520094800755650002301703776003501726856007101761CR9780511761508UkCbUP20180107143412.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100506s2010||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511761508 (ebook)  z9780521192897 (hardback)  z9780521140911 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aKF4550 b.M33 201000a342.732221 aMcDowell, Gary L.,eauthor.14aThe Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism / [electronic resource]cGary L. McDowell.3 aThe Language of Law & the Foundations of American Constitutionalism 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  a1 online resource (428 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aFor much of its history, the interpretation of the United States Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred rule of interpretation'. Since the end of the nineteenth century, a radically new understanding has developed in which the moral intuition of the judges is allowed to supplant the Constitution's original meaning as the foundation of interpretation. The Founders' Constitution of fixed and permanent meaning has been replaced by the idea of a 'living' or evolving constitution. Gary L. McDowell refutes this new understanding, recovering the theoretical grounds of the original Constitution as understood by those who framed and ratified it. It was, he argues, the intention of the Founders that the judiciary must be bound by the original meaning of the Constitution when interpreting it. 0aConstitutional law08iPrint version: z978052119289740uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761508zCambridge Books Online