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Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the right and the left, prominent legal scholars normally try to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea, Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multifaceted common law methods already used by the Court provide a far better means of reaching sound decisions and controlling judicial discretion than do any of the grand theories.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Constitutional & administrative law

• Full title: Desperately Seeking Certainty
• Subtitle: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations
• Author: Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780226238081
• ID: 04544584
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 436 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 158 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. May 2002

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