Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law

摘要

Cloth, $85; Paper, $25.99 - The anchoring truths in the title of Professor Arkes's treatise are the necessary presuppositions that render law and legal interpretation utterly unfit for the mere assignment of a set of words to a specific location within a table of dictionary meanings. The introductory chapter makes all this clear with samples stretching from the American founding to contemporary case law in the 20th century where, on an issue such as cross burning, Justice O'Connor is found observing that such actions appear in ... the stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake.