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Tribe, Laurence H.,

On reading the Constitution / Laurence H. Tribe & Michael C. Dorf. - 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1991 - [xi], 144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-135)-and indexes.

How not to read the Constitution -- Structuring constitutional conversations -- Judicial value choice in the definition of rights -- Seeking guidance from other disciplines : law, literature, and mathematics -- Reconstructing the Constitution as a reader's guide.

"Draws heavily on two previous works. The first ... 'On reading the Constitution,' appeared in the Utah law review in 1988. It was a lightly edited version of the Tanner Lectures given by Laurence Tribe at the University of Utah in November 1986, and forms the basis for what became Chapters 1 and 2 of this book. Chapters 3 through 5 are based on 'Levels of generality in the definition of rights,' a recent collaboration by the two of us, which first appeared in the fall 1990 edition of the Chicago law review"--Acknowledgments, page [vii]

ISBN: 0674636260 9780674636262 0674636252 9780674636255

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9345661 bnb

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Constitution.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Constitution (United States)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Constitutional law--United States.
Constitutional law.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Subjects--Index Terms: Constitution United States

LC Class. No.: KF 4550 / .T787 1992

Dewey Class. No.: 347.3022