Desperately seeking certainty: the misguided quest for constitutional foundations
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Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multif.
Farber, D. A., & Sherry, S. (2002). Desperately seeking certainty: the misguided quest for constitutional foundations. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Farber, Daniel A., 1950- and Suzanna. Sherry. 2002. Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Farber, Daniel A., 1950- and Suzanna. Sherry, Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002.
MLA Citation (style guide)Farber, Daniel A. and Suzanna Sherry. Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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