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In recent years, some have asked "Are we all originalists now?" and many have assumed that originalists have a monopoly on concern for fidelity in constitutional interpretation. In Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution, James Fleming rejects originalisms-whether old or new, concrete or abstract, living or dead. Instead, he defends what Ronald Dworkin called a "moral reading" of the United States Constitution, or a "philosophic approach" to constitutional interpretation. He refers to conceptions
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- Author
- James E. Fleming
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190259006
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Law, Political Science, Jurisprudence
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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