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A Fine Romance: Keith Whittington's Originalism and the Drama of U.S. Constitutional Theory

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Whittington Keith, Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. ix + 303 pages.
Whittington Keith, Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xi + 299 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Susan Burgess
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Law & Society Review , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , 2001 , pp. 931 - 942
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Copyright © 2001 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I'd like to thank my colleagues at Ohio University, DeLysa Burnier, John Gilliom, and Julie White, for their thoughtful suggestions about this piece. Thanks also to Helena Silverstein, the review essays editor, for her excellent suggestions.

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