Desperately Seeking Certainty

The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Constitutional
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Author: Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry ISBN: 9780226238104
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: March 1, 2004
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry
ISBN: 9780226238104
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: March 1, 2004
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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 are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan 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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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 are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan 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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