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100 1 Vermeule, Adrian,|d1968-|eauthor
245 10 Common good constitutionalism :|brecovering the classical
legal tradition /|cAdrian Vermeule
264 1 Cambridge, UK :|bPolity Press,|c2022
264 4 |c©2022
300 viii, 247 pages ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 0 Introduction: The return of the classical legal tradition
-- The common good defined -- The classical legal
tradition in America -- Originalism as illusion --
Progressive constitutionalism and developing
constitutionalism -- Applications -- Conclusion
520 "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.'"--Back cover
650 0 Constitutional law|zUnited States|xPhilosophy
