TY  - BOOK
AU  - McIntosh,Simeon C.R.
TI  - Reading text and polity: hermeneutics and constitutional theory 
SN  - 9768167572
AV  - KGL5548 .M33 2012
U1  - 342.729 23
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - West Indies, British
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - United States
KW  - Hermeneutics
N1  - 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
UR  - https://app.vlex.com/#/sources/37622
ER  -