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The Invisible Constitution (Inalienable Rights)

By Laurence H. Tribe

ISBN: 9780195304251

Published: 2008

Number of Pages: 304

Edition: 1st

Binding: Hardcover


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Product Type: Book

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: As everyone knows, the United States Constitution is a tangible, visible document. Many see it in fact as a sacred text, holding no meaning other than that which is clearly visible on the page. Yet as renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe shows, what is not written in the Constitution plays a key role in its interpretation. Indeed some of the most contentious Constitutional debates of our time hinge on the extent to which it can admit of divergent readings.In The Invisible Constitution, Tribe argues that there is an unseen constitution--impalpable but powerful--that accompanies the parchment version. It is the visible document's shadow, its dark matter: always there and possessing some of its key meanings and values despite its absence on the page. As Tribe illustrates, some of our most cherished and widely held beliefs about constitutional rights are not part of the written document, but can only be deduced by piecing together hints and clues from it. Moreover, some passages of the Constitution do not even hold today despite their continuing existence. Amendments may have fundamentally altered what the Constitution originally said about slavery and voting rights, yet the old provisos about each are still in the text, unrevised. Through a variety of historical episodes and key constitutional cases, Tribe brings to life this invisible constitution, showing how it has evolved and how it works. Detailing its invisible structures and principles, Tribe compellingly demonstrates the invisible constitution's existence and operative power.Remarkably original, keenly perceptive, and written with Tribe's trademark analytical flair, this latest volume in Oxford's Inalienable Rights series offers a new way of understanding many of the central constitutional debates of our time.About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.


Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2008008662
   - LC control Number: 2008008662

International Standard Book Number: 019530425X (hardback : alk. paper)9780195304251 (hardback : alk. paper)

Geographic Area Code: n-us---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: KF4550
   - Item number: .T7865 2008

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 342.7302

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Tribe, Laurence H.

Title Statement
   - Title: The invisible constitution /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Laurence H. Tribe.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Oxford [England] ;
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Oxford University Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2008.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xxi, 278 p. :
   - Extent: xxi, 278 p., [6] p. of plates :
   - Other physical details: col. ill. ;
   - Other physical details: col. plates ;
   - Dimensions: 22 cm.

Series Statement/Added Entry - Title: Inalienable rights series

General Note: Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-232) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Beyond the visible -- Defining the terrain -- Explorations beyond the text -- The content of liberty and equality and the boundaries of government power -- Visualizing the invisible.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Constitutional law
   - Geographic subdivision: United States.


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