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The Imaginary Constitution

dc.contributor.authorSherry, Suzanna
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-05T19:35:07Z
dc.date.available2022-05-05T19:35:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citation17 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 441 (2019)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/17300
dc.descriptionarticle published in a law journalen_US
dc.description.abstractHow many ways can conservatives spin an originalist tale to support their deregulatory, small-government vision? The answer is apparently infinite. In a new book, Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman are the latest in a long line of scholars who insist that the real original meaning of the Constitution demands unwinding the regulatory state and substantially limiting the power of the federal government. They argue that the Constitution is a fiduciary instrument, specifically a power of attorney. After summarizing the book, this essay turns to three of its most important failings, each of which serves to make the book a work of politics, not history. In the end, their account is imaginative but their Constitution is imaginary.en_US
dc.format.extent1 PDF (22 pages)en_US
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dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherGeorgetown Journal of Law & Public Policyen_US
dc.subjectoriginalismen_US
dc.subjectconstitutionen_US
dc.subjectconstitutional historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshlawen_US
dc.subject.lcshconstitutional lawen_US
dc.titleThe Imaginary Constitutionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.ssrn-urihttps://ssrn.com/abstract=3201281


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