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<p><P><b>Judgement Calls</b> tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution? Our Constitution contains a great deal of language that is vague, broad, or ambiguous, making its meaning uncertain. Many people believe this uncertainty allows judges too much discretion. They suggest that constitutional adjudication is just politics in disguise, and that judges are legislators in robes who read the Constitution in accordance with their own political views. Some think that political decision making by judges is inevitable, and others think it can be restrained by strict constructionist theories like textualism or originalism. But at bottom, both sorts of thinkers believe that judging has to be either tightly constrained and inflexible or purely political and unfettered: There is, they argue, no middle ground.<P>Farber and Sherry disagree, and in this book they describe and defend that middle ground. They show how judging can be—and often is—both principled and flexible. In other words, they attempt to reconcile the democratic rule of law with the recognition that judges have discre
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- Author
- Farber, Daniel A., Sherry, Suzanna
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786611769727
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Political Science, Social Science
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