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ERIC Number: EJ394401
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
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Originalism and Subjectivism in the Bicentennial Year.
Reid, John Phillip
Social Science Quarterly, v68 n4 p687-702 Dec 1987
Surveys the debate over how the United States Constitution is to be regarded for purposes of judicial interpretation in federal court cases. Focuses on the views of U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, Ronald Dworkin, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Discusses the underlying values of original intent and its opposite, judicial activism. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Political Science, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: United States Constitution
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