Misreading law, misreading democracy
"Hating Congress but loving Democracy is a national passion. For those who apply law, whether lawyers or judges, it is an oxymoronic luxury neither can afford. One of the dirty secrets of the legal academy is that it teaches almost nothing to lawyers about how law is made in Congress. The resul...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40545143*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : the paradox of American civic illiteracy
- Congress is not a court
- Statutory interpretation theories misunderstand Congress
- A legislative decision theory of statutory interpretation
- Petty textualism, canons, and cognitive bias
- What is legislative intent? : evidence of context
- The constitutional argument for legislative evidence
- Epilogue : courts and Congress as faithful agents of democracy.
