Interpretation and construction

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-72

  Barnett, Randy E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 80055026874     PISSN: 01934872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (14)

1. See KEITH E. WHITTINGTON, CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION: TEXTUAL MEANING, ORIGINAL INTENT, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW s 5-14 (1999);
2. Lawrence B. Solum, Semantic Originalism (Ill. Pub. Law Research Paper No. 07-24, 2008), available at http://ssrn. com/abstract=1120244;
3. see also RANDY E. BARNETT, RESTORING THE LOST CONSTITUTION: THE PRESUMPTION OF LIBERTY 89-120 (2005); JACK BALKIN, FAITH AND FRAMEWORK: HOW WE BUILT OUR CONSTITUTION (forthcoming).
4. E. Allan Farnsworth, "Meaning" in the Law of Contracts, 76 YALE L. J. 939, 953 (1967).
5. See Randy E. Barnett, The Misconceived Assumption about Constitutional Assumptions, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 615, 634 (2009).
6. See U. S. CONST. art. I, § 2, cl. 3, amended by U. S. CONST. amend. XIV (referring to slaves as "other Persons"); id. at § 9, cl. 1 (referring to slaves as "such Persons" and "each Person"); id. at art. IV, § 2, cl. 3 (referring to slaves as "Person[s] held to Service of Labour").
7. See, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27 (2001) (holding that thermal imaging a house from a public vantage point is a search under the Fourth Amendment).
8. See Lawrence B. Solum, On the Indeterminacy Crisis: Critiquing Critical Dogma, 54 U. CHI. L. REV. 462, 473 (1987) (distinguishing between indeterminacy and underdeterminacy).
9. See, e.g., Kovacs v. Cooper, 336 U. S. 77 (1949) (holding that restrictions on sound trucks did not violate the First Amendment).
10. See, e.g., Forsyth Cnty. v. Nationalist Movement, 505 U. S. 123 (1992) (holding that an ordinance requiring different fees for different types of demonstrations violated the First Amendment).
11. See, e.g., Perry Educ. Asśn v. Perry Local Educatorś Asśn, 460 U. S. 37, 45 (1983); U. S. Postal Serv. V. Council of Greenburgh, 453 U. S. 114, 132 (1981).
12. See BARNETT, supra note 1.
13. See, e.g., DAVID A. STRAUSS, THE LIVING CONSTITUTION (2010) (defending a common-law theory of "living" constitutional law).
14. John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, Original Methods Originalism: A New Theory of Interpretation and the Case Against Construction, 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. 751, 751 (2009).