Name: Common Good Constitutionalism
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Author: Adrian Vermeule
ISBN: 9781509548873

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adrian Vermeule

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

270

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781509548873

Synopsis "Common Good Constitutionalism "

The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the "living constitutionalism" of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as "a reasoned ordering to the common good." In this view, law's purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of "common good constitutionalism." This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America's most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.

Adrian Vermeule

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Adrian Vermeule is the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law. Before joining the Law School, he was the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Author or co-author of nine books, the most recent ones are The Abnegation of Law: From the Rule of Law to the Administrative State (2016), The Constitution of Risk (2014), and The System of the Constitution (2012). He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. His research focuses on administrative law, the administrative state, institutional design, and constitutional theory. Vermeule grew up in Cambridge and attended Harvard University in 1990 and Harvard Law School in 1993. He still lives in Cambridge.

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