Keeping Faith with the Constitution

Author/Contributor(s):	Liu, Goodwin
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/13/2010
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution 'requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated.' This work argues that to preserve the meaning & authority of the document it must be shaped by evolving precedent, historical experience, practical consequence & societal change.