Arkes re-examines legal cases and concepts long thought settled, finding that their meaning is far less clear than commonly accepted.

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 tex

This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the "moral sciences": that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true

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Are constitutional rights based exclusively in uniquely American considerations, or are they based at least in part on principles that transcend the boundaries