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    <publisher>LexisNexis Matthew Bender</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
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  <tableOfContents>A brief historical overview of the development of American constitutional theory -- Theories of constitutional change -- Judicial activism and restraint : the contemporary debate -- Theories of judicial review and the debate over judicial supremacy -- Textualism and constitutional interpretation -- Originalism and constitutional interpretation -- Structural reasoning -- Moral reasoning -- Precedent in constitutional adjudication -- Liberal constitutional theory -- Conservative constitutional theory -- Feminist legal theory -- Critical race theory -- Interpretation theory and postmodernism -- Theory and its discontents.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Michael J. Gerhardt, Stephen M. Griffin, Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.</note>
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