| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the anchoring common sense and the puzzles of the law -- On the novelties of an old constitution : settled principles and unsettling surprises -- The natural law--again, ever -- Lochner and the cast of our law -- The strange case of prior restraint : the Pentagon Papers -- Near revisited -- The saga of Frank Snepp and the new regime of previous restraints -- And yet ... a good word on behalf of the legal positivists -- Conclusion and afterword. |
| Summary |
This book stands against the current of judgments long settled in the schools of law in regard to classic cases such as Lochner volume New York, Near volume Minnesota, the Pentagon Papers case, and Bob Jones University volume United States. Professor Hadley Arkes takes as his subject concepts long regarded as familiar, settled principles in our law - 'prior restraints', ex post facto laws - and he shows that there is actually a mystery about them, that their meaning is not as settled or clear as we have long supposed. Arkes shows this in his text, arguing that the logic of the natural law provides the key to this chain of legal puzzles. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Constitutional law -- United States.
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Constitutional law. |
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United States. |
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Natural law.
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Natural law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Constitutional illusions & anchoring truths |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Arkes, Hadley. Constitutional illusions and anchoring truths. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521518178 (DLC) 2009028972 (OCoLC)426390912 |
| ISBN |
9780511789403 (electronic book) |
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0511789408 (electronic book) |
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9780511786808 (eBook (ebrary) |
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0511786808 (eBook (ebrary) |
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9780511777981 (electronic book) |
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0511777981 (electronic book) |
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9780521518178 (hardback) |
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0521518172 (hardback) |
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9780521732086 (paperback) |
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0521732085 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612724978 |
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