Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Original Intent
ISBN: 9781501728334
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: United States. Constitutional convention (1787) -- Constitutional history -- United States;

No concept sparks more controversy in constitutional debate than "original intent." Offering a legal historian's approach to the subject, this book demonstrates that the framers deliberately obscured one of their more important decisions. Joseph M...


Joseph M. Lynch is Professor of Law Emeritus at Seton Hall University School of Law.

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