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18This essay investigates a familiar set of questions about the relationship between legal texts (e.g., constitutions, statutes, opinions, orders, and contracts) and the content of the law (e.g., norms, rules, standards, doctrines, and mandates). Is the original meaning of the constitutional text binding on the Supreme Court when it develops doctrines of constitutional law? Should statutes be given their plain meaning or should judges devise statutory constructions that depart from the text to ser…Read more
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4The aretaic turn in American philosophy of lawIn Francis J. Mootz (ed.), On Philosophy in American Law, Cambridge University Press. 2009.This essay explores the development of "virtue jurisprudence," a general theory of law that draws on ideas developed in virtue ethics.
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8What role does and should religion play in the legal sphere of a modern liberal democracy? Does religion threaten to create divisions that would undermine the stability of the constitutional order? Or is religious disagreement itself a force that works to create consensus on some of the core commitments of constitutionalism--liberty of conscience, toleration, limited government, and the rule of law? This essay explores these questions from the perspectives of contemporary political philosophy an…Read more
Harlem (historical), Washington, D.C., United States of America
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