Beyond the Constitution
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Beyond the Constitution

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beyond the Constitution

About this book

Hadley Arkes argues that it is necessary to move "beyond the Constitution," to the principles that stood antecedent to the text, if we are to understand the text and apply the Constitution to the cases that arise every day in our law.

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INDEX
abortion, 214ā€“15; and the Civil Rights Restoration Act, 223ā€“31; and discriminations based on sex, 221; parental consent, 215, 269n. 12; and private medical plans, 221ā€“28
Adamson v. California, 262n. 18
Akron, Ohio, regulations on ā€œinformed consentā€ in, 126
Alberts v. California, 150ā€“54, 262nn.4-6, 9, 12
Alien and Sedition Acts, John Marshallā€™s defense of, 72, 256n.29
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 80
American Hospital Association, 226
Andrew, John, 213, 268ā€“69n. 10
Anti-federalists, 15, 21, 23, 24, 247, 251; and the argument over the Bill of Rights, 59ā€“60, 257n.40
Aquinas, Thomas, 35, 37, 63, 252n.38, 265n.33
Aristotle, 35, 62, 63, 255n.12
Arkes, Hadley, 32, 247, 249nn.3, 6, 251nn.19, 26, 252nn.18, 23ā€“26, 28, 39, 253n.43, 254n.30, 255n.12, 256nn.34, 35, 37, 257n.8, 258nn.20, 34, 259n.22, 261n.64, 262nn.67, 3, 7, 8, 263n.39, 265n.32, 266n.34, 268n.2, 269n.16, 270n.37, 271nn.44, 54
Articles of Confederation, 55, 89, 142ā€“43
Autonomy, as ground of rights, 265n.33, 266n.34
Baby Doe cases, 7ā€“8, 76, 232ā€“44, 249n.5, 271nn.45, 47ā€“53, 58ā€“60
Baby Jane Doe (Long Island), 235, 238, 249n.5, 271nn.45-55, 58ā€“60
Baez, Joan, 77ā€“79
Baldwin v. Franks, 117, 259n.18
Barron v. Baltimore, 157, 167ā€“68, 262n. 13
Bazelon, David, 261nn.48, 49
Beauharnais v. Illinois, 152, 258n.35, 262nn.10, 11
Beck, D. Gary, 263n.46
Bentham, Jeremy, 14, 175, 26...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. One: Introduction
  8. Two: The ā€œReasoning Spiritā€ of the Constitution
  9. Three: Moving Beyond the Text
  10. Four: On the Dangers of a Bill of Rights: Restating the Federalist Argument
  11. Five: Life among the Clauses
  12. Six: The Sweep of Civil Rights and the Maze of Federalism
  13. Seven: On the Art of ā€œIncorporatingā€ Rights
  14. Eight: Incriminations: Self, and Others
  15. Nine: Neonates and Reprobates: The Reach of a Government Competent to Its Ends
  16. Notes
  17. Index