Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution

by Lawrence Lessig

Book Overview

The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document over time.

In Fidelity & Constraint, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig explains that one of the most basic approaches to interpreting the constitution is the process of translation. Indeed, some of the most significant shifts in constitutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190945664
• ISBN13: 9780190945664
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"