Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence
Frank J. Colucci · 2009
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With a record reliably neither liberal nor conservative, Kennedy has generally been viewed as a capricious, indecisive moderate. Frank Colucci, however, argues that Kennedy indeed displays a coherent approach to constitutional interpretation. Colucci identifies Kennedy's core belief: that judges have a duty to ensure the word liberty in the Constitution be given its full and necessary meaning. Colucci shows that Kennedy rejects theories of originalism and judicial restraint. Instead, Kennedy adopts a moral reading of the Constitution in which liberty and human dignity trump even democracy. --From publisher description.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 243
- ISBN
- 9780700616626
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