The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the ‘living constitutionalism’ of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative?
Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as ‘a reasoned ordering to the common good.’ In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of ‘common good constitutionalism.’
This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.
Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as ‘a reasoned ordering to the common good.’ In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of ‘common good constitutionalism.’
This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.
表中的内容
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF THE CLASSICAL LEGAL TRADITION
I. THE COMMON GOOD DEFINED
II. THE CLASSICAL LEGAL TRADITION IN AMERICA
III. ORIGINALISM AS ILLUSION
IV. PROGRESSIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEVELOPING CONSTITUTIONALISM
V. APPLICATIONS
CONCLUSION
关于作者
Adrian Vermeule is Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.购买此电子书可免费获赠一本!
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 270 ● ISBN 9781509548880 ● 文件大小 0.3 MB ● 出版者 John Wiley & Sons ● 发布时间 2022 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8304351 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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