Common Good Constitutionalism

by Adrian Vermeule

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509548874
• ISBN13: 9781509548873
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"