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Author McIntosh, Simeon C. R., author.

Title Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory / Simeon C.R. McIntosh.

Publication Info. Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami : The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Constitutional law -- West Indies, British -- Philosophy.
Constitutional law.
Philosophy.
Constitutional law -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States.
Hermeneutics.
Hermeneutics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Cover Title Reading text & polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory
Other Form: Print version: McIntosh, Simeon C.R., author. Reading text and polity. Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami : The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, 2012 9768167572 (DLC) 2012476168 (OCoLC)794710027
ISBN 9789768167675 (electronic book)
976816767X (electronic book)
9768167572
9789768167576