Constitutional Theory and the Rule of Recognition

The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Berman, Mitchell N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitution; Constitutional theory; H. L. A. Hart; Legal propositions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195343298.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

References (17)

1. See, e.g., Matthew D. Adler, Popular Constitutionalism and the Rule of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?, 100 NW. U. L. REV. 719 (2006).
2. See, e.g., Mitchell N. Berman, Constitutional Decision Rules, 90 VA. L. REV. 1 (2004).
3. Questions of this sort are explored in important recent work by Trevor Morrison. See, e.g., Trevor W. Morrison, Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution, 107 COLUM. L. REV. 1533 (2007).
4. See generally PHILIP BOBBITT, CONSTITUTIONAL FATE (1982);
5. PHILIP BOBBITT, CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION (1991).
6. See, e.g., Kent Greenawalt, The Rule of Recognition and the Constitution, 85 MICH. L. REV. 621, 659-60 (1987) (reprinted as Chapter 1, this volume, at 36-37).
7. For an examination of debates in the early republic, see LARRY D. KRAMER, THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES: POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM AND JUDICIAL REVIEW (2004).
8. JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY, THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF THE LAW 4 (1921).
9. See DR. SEUSS, THE SNEETCHES AND OTHER STORIES (1961).
10. RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 31 (1986).
11. Gerald J. Postema, Classical Common Law Jurisprudence (Part I), 2 OXFORD U. COMMONWEALTH L.J. 155, 166 (2002).
12. Gerald J. Postema, Classical Common Law Jurisprudence (Part II), 3 OXFORD U. COMMONWEALTH L.J. 1, 6 (2003).
13. John Mackie, The Third Theory of Law, 7 PHIL. & PUB. AFF. 3 (1977).
14. See, e.g., Brian Leiter, Objectivity, Morality, and Adjudication, in OBJECTIVITY IN LAW AND MORALS 66, 88 (Brian Leiter ed., 2001).
15. See David A. Strauss, Common Law Constitutional Interpretation, 63 U. CHI. L. REV. 877 (1996).
16. See Akhil Reed Amar, The Supreme Court, 1999 Term-Foreword: The Document and the Doctrine, 114 HARV. L. REV. 26 (2000).
17. Mitchell N. Berman, Originalism is Bunk, 84 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1 (2009).