Title Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory / Simeon C.R. McIntosh

Published Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami : The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Toward a West Indian hermeneutics: the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice -- 1. Legal hermeneutics: a philosophical critique -- 2. Controversial propositions of law and the positivist embarrassment: the Hart/Dworkin debate reconsidered -- 3. On reading the Ninth Amendment: a reply to Raoul Berger -- 4. A poetic for law: constitutional theory as metaphor -- 5. Reading Dred Scott, Plessy, and Brown: toward a constitutional hermeneutics -- 6. West Indian constitutional discourse: a poetics of reconstruction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Constitutional law -- West Indies, British -- Philosophy Constitutional law -- United States -- Philosophy Hermeneutics. hermeneutics. LAW -- Constitutional. LAW -- Public. Constitutional law -- Philosophy Hermeneutics United States West Indies -- British West Indies Form Electronic book ISBN 9789768167675 976816767X

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