Original Intent and the Framers’ Constitution (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Leonard W. Levy
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Constitutional history
- Time of Work: 1787 to the late twentieth century
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, William H. Rehnquist, Robert Bork
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Judges, Government, Constitutional law, Legislative bodies, Courts or courtrooms, Political conventions, Constitutions
- Locales: United States
Writing with the erudition of a scholar with some twenty books on the Constitution to his credit, and the exasperation of a historian who has suffered ignorance in high places long enough, Leonard W. Levy confronts the conservative chorus that has decried the so-called “activism” of the Supreme Court and called for a jurisprudence based on the “original intent” of the framers of the Constitution. Taking level aim at former attorney general Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Robert Bork, and especially Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Levy writes flatly:...
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