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Author: Alexander Tsesis (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780199359844
ISBN 10: 0199359849
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 20 April 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Alex Tsesis has a well-deserved reputation for creative audacity as a constitutional thinker. An earlier book emphasized the importance of the Declaration of Independence to a full appreciation of the American constitutional project. He further develops this argument about America's 'constitutional ethos' by emphasizing, altogether correctly, the importance to paying full attention to the much-too-ignored Preamble of the Constitution. It is the Preamble, after all, that establishes the point and purpose of the overall constitutional enterprise, and Tsesis consistently offers illuminating insights about the merits of fully integrating the Preamble into the way we think about the Constitution. One hopes that this book will be widely read and that it will lead to a welcome change in the very way constitutional law is taught in American law schools, which now basically ignores the Preamble. -Sanford Levinson, author of <em>Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance</em> Among the most interesting parts of this pervasively interesting book is its treatment of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble as sources of constitutional meaning. Tsesis makes a strong case, historically and normatively, for expanding the domain of constitutional guidance and recognizing that the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble are part of the American constitutional tradition. -Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Alex Tsesis has a well-deserved reputation for creative audacity as a constitutional thinker. An earlier book emphasized the importance of the Declaration of Independence to a full appreciation of the American constitutional project. He further develops this argument about America's 'constitutional ethos' by emphasizing, altogether correctly, the importance to paying full attention to the much-too-ignored Preamble of the Constitution. It is the Preamble, after all, that establishes the point and purpose of the overall constitutional enterprise, and Tsesis consistently offers illuminating insights about the merits of fully integrating the Preamble into the way we think about the Constitution. One hopes that this book will be widely read and that it will lead to a welcome change in the very way constitutional law is taught in American law schools, which now basically ignores the Preamble. -Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance Among the most interesting parts of this pervasively interesting book is its treatment of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble as sources of constitutional meaning. Tsesis makes a strong case, historically and normatively, for expanding the domain of constitutional guidance and recognizing that the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble are part of the American constitutional tradition. -Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Author Information
Alexander Tsesis is Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law at the Loyola University School of Law. He is the author of For Liberty and Equality (Oxford University Press) and We Shall Overcome (Yale University Press).
