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- The Constitution Means What the Supreme Court Says It Means
Judge Posner conceded that the Constitution provides general guidelines that he must respect, such as vague preferences for freedom of speech and religion and against unreasonable searches and seizures and cruel and unusual punishments
- JUDGE POSNER’S COMMON LAW CONSTITUTION
This past year, Judge Richard Posner published a pair of essays endorsing the common law method of constitutional interpretation “David Strauss is right,” he wrote, in a contribution to Slate’s annual Supreme Court Breakfast Table
- Richard Posner clarifies his views on the Constitution.
Richard Posner clarifies his views on the Constitution Entry 27: Broad interpretations An honor guard stands by original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the
- Posner apologizes, says his controversial comments were about a living . . .
Judge Richard Posner is apologizing to readers who took his comments on the Constitution to suggest he doesn’t think the Constitution has any role to play in interpreting the law
- Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency . . .
In Not a Suicide Pact, Judge Richard A Posner offers a cogent and elegant response to these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with public safety in the face of grave national danger
- Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National . . . - Dissent
For all of Posner’s complaints about the ‘vagueness’ of the Constitution, it is astonishing how imprecise he is in his use of these three concepts Constitutional rights Posner tells us early on that his analysis in Not a Suicide Pact is ‘limited’ to American constitutional law (p 8)
- What Am I? A Potted Plant? The Case against Strict Construction
Judge Posner's article "What am I? A Potted Plant?" is an ideal primary source for a post-secondary lesson on constitutional interpretation
- Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
In Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, Richard Posner, the polymath federal judge, professor of law, and eminent pragmatist public intellectual, provides just such a perspective on the relationship of the Constitution to the terrorist threat
- Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
Critical of civil libertarians who balk at any curtailment of their rights, even in the face of an unprecedented terrorist threat in an era of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Posner takes a fresh look at the most important constitutional issues that have arisen since 9 11
- The Poverty of Posners Pragmatism: Balancing Away Liberty After 9 11 . . .
Eschewing popular conservative attacks on judicial activism, Posner argues that given the open-ended character of many of the Constitution's most important terms, it is not objectionable, but inevitable, that constitutional law is judge-made
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