Constitutional Bricolage / / Gerald Garvey.

Uniquely blending anthropological and exchange theory, Professor Garvey offers a new interpretation of American constitutional development. His thesis: judicial reliance on a limited stock of received forms has inhibited the development of new concepts that could adequately reflect fundamental chang...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1971
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1472
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Physical Description:1 online resource (174 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. The Syntactic Approach and the Primacy of Form
  • II. The Law of Rules
  • III. The Framers' Political Syntax
  • IV. The Legal Humour in America
  • V. Taney and Constitutional Bricolage
  • VI. Helping the Fittest Survive
  • VII. The Liberation of the State
  • VIII. Toward a New Political Syntax: Beyond Bricolage
  • Index