McIntosh, Simeon C. R., <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9768167572 9789768167576 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012476168 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016003359  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Constitutional law--Philosophy.--West Indies, British<br/>Constitutional law--Philosophy.--United States<br/>Hermeneutics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KGL5548  / .M33 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>342.729