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McIntosh, Simeon C. R.,

Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory / Reading text & polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory Simeon C.R. McIntosh. - 1 online resource (ix, 398 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.

Introduction: Toward a West Indian hermeneutics: the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice -- 1. Legal hermeneutics: a philosophical critique -- 2. Controversial propositions of law and the positivist embarrassment: the Hart/Dworkin debate reconsidered -- 3. On reading the Ninth Amendment: a reply to Raoul Berger -- 4. A poetic for law: constitutional theory as metaphor -- 5. Reading Dred Scott, Plessy, and Brown: toward a constitutional hermeneutics -- 6. West Indian constitutional discourse: a poetics of reconstruction.

ISBN: 9768167572 9789768167576

LCCN: 2012476168

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016003359 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Constitutional law--Philosophy.--West Indies, British
Constitutional law--Philosophy.--United States
Hermeneutics.

LC Class. No.: KGL5548 / .M33 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 342.729