The Madisonian Constitution

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The Madisonian Constitution by George Thomas


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Fneh. The nicest word I can come up with for this book is “opaque.” It’s actually a pretty interesting argument about Constitutional interpretation, but I won’t bother dissecting it here because seriously, when the author said it was the book version of his graduate thesis I went, “ohhhhhhh,” and not in a good way. It’s also one of those books by nonlawyers trying to supersede legal interpretations of something (the Constitution, here) by using the tools of another discipline, which is fine and dandy until you fail to deal with the legal interpretations on their own lexical terms, so you just look like you don’t understand them. Which I think Thomas actually does, for the most part, so. Fneh.

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