Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
Autor Jonathan Gienappen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2025
Urgența lecturii volumului Against Constitutional Originalism derivă dintr-o realitate juridică imediată: într-un moment în care majoritatea judecătorilor de la Curtea Supremă a SUA își fundamentează deciziile pe teoria originalismului, demontarea riguroasă a acestei doctrine devine o necesitate pentru orice specialist în drept constituțional. Putem afirma că Jonathan Gienapp nu semnează doar o critică juridică, ci realizează o autopsie istorică a modului în care interpretarea literală a trecutului este, de fapt, o proiecție a prejudecăților moderne. Remarcăm modul în care autorul demonstrează că originaliștii eșuează tocmai în misiunea lor declarată: recuperarea sensului autentic al părinților fondatori. În loc să accepte complexitatea gândirii secolului al XVIII-lea, aceștia impun concepte contemporane asupra unui text care funcționa după logici juridice radical diferite. Cititorul care a aplicat ideile critice din Worse Than Nothing de Erwin Chemerinsky va găsi aici argumentul istoric care completează refutarea ideologică, oferind o bază documentară vastă despre ce însemna cu adevărat „a scrie o constituție” în epoca iluminismului. Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească a temelor din volumul său anterior, The Second Creation, extinzând analiza de la formarea identității constituționale la modul în care utilizarea defectuoasă a istoriei în prezent poate altera democrația. Merită menționat că Gienapp nu propune o simplă respingere, ci o recalibrare a înțelegerii noastre asupra legii fundamentale, făcând din acest titlu, publicat de Yale University Press, o piesă centrală în bibliografia juridică actuală.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 030028487X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
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Această carte este esențială pentru avocați, istorici și studenți la drept care doresc să înțeleagă de ce interpretarea istorică a Constituției este adesea viciată. Veți învăța să identificați anacronismele din discursul juridic contemporan și veți câștiga o perspectivă critică, premiată internațional, asupra modului în care trecutul este instrumentalizat în tribunale. Este un instrument analitic indispensabil pentru a naviga dezbaterile actuale despre autoritatea legală.
Despre autor
Jonathan Gienapp este un istoric de prestigiu și profesor specializat în istoria politică și juridică a Statelor Unite. Recunoașterea sa academică este confirmată de premii remarcabile, precum Order of the Coif Book Award și includerea pe lista lungă pentru Cundill History Prize. Prin opera sa, Gienapp s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în demitizarea procesului de creare a Constituției americane. În lucrările sale, precum The Second Creation, acesta explorează modul în care sensul documentelor fondatoare a fost negociat și transformat în primii ani ai republicii, oferind un context istoric riguros care provoacă teoriile juridice simpliste.
Descriere scurtă
“What are the chances that, in 2024, a new book could fundamentally reorient how we understand America’s founding? Jonathan Gienapp . . . has written such a book. . . . You read it, and you get vertigo. . . . Gienapp’s book comes as a thunderclap.”—Cass Sunstein, Washington Post
Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award, 2025 • Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, 2025 • History Today Book of the Year, 2024
Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory’s core tenet—that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning—has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problematic. And now that a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court champion originalism, the task of scrutinizing originalists’ use and abuse of history has never been more urgent.
In this comprehensive and novel critique of originalism, Jonathan Gienapp targets originalists’ unspoken assumptions about the Constitution and its history. Originalists are committed to recovering the Constitution laid down at the American Founding, yet they often assume that the Constitution is fundamentally modern. Rather than recovering the original Constitution, they project their own understandings onto it, assuming that eighteenth-century constitutional thinking was no different than their own. They take for granted what it meant to write a constitution down, what law was, how it worked, and where it came from, and how a constitution’s meaning was fixed. In the process, they erase the Constitution that eighteenth-century Americans in fact created. By understanding how originalism fails, we can better understand the Constitution that we have.
Recenzii
Chosen by Joy Porter for History Today “Books of the Year” 2024
“Against Constitutional Originalism . . . injects a fresh, powerful new argument against originalism into the debate.”—Andrew Lanham, New Republic
“Admirably clear, crisply paced, and persuasively argued. . . . As an academic theory, originalism is on a standing eight count.”—Calvin TerBeek, American Political Thought
“Arguably the most important book written against originalist methodology. Originalists in the academy have little choice but to pay attention to it and respond to its charges. Gienapp . . . has emerged as one of [originalism’s] ablest critics.”—Aaron N. Coleman, Law & Liberty
“Against Constitutional Originalism . . . is a tour de force—among the most important books published in the field of constitutional law in a generation. Deep, sophisticated, and tremendously well written, it poses what might well be the stiffest challenge to the originalist project to date.”—Thomas B. Colby, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities
“A powerful and subtle critique. . . . [Gienapp] offers us a deep and capacious understanding of the founders’ Constitution that will endure.”—George Thomas, American Political Thought
“Jonathan Gienapp . . . supplies a powerful, perhaps unanswerable critique of the analytic foundations of originalist interpretive theory.”—John Witt, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities
Longlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University
Winner of the 2025 Order of the Coif Book Award
“Just when you thought that surely there is nothing new or interesting to say about originalism, along comes Jonathan Gienapp. Against Constitutional Originalism is a must-read. For anyone new to the debates, it provides a comprehensive presentation of the arguments on all sides. For those already familiar, he takes the debate in a new direction that is a level deeper and more foundational. In so doing, he puts advocates of the theory into a conundrum that must force some kind of reconsideration.”—Larry Kramer, author of The People Themselves
“Professor Gienapp offers a new and devastating critique of originalism. Approaching originalism as an historian, he powerfully shows that originalism is a ‘contrived modern legal fiction’ that cannot be justified based on the original Constitution.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, author of Worse Than Nothing
“Most critiques of originalism attack its view of how to think about what the words of the Constitution mean. Gienapp’s analysis cuts far deeper; through exquisitely careful historical research, Gienapp shows that today’s originalists have overlooked the Founders’ understanding of what the Constitution even is. Against Constitutional Originalism is the most important book in constitutional theory since John Hart Ely’s Democracy and Distrust.”—Benjamin C. Zipursky, Fordham University School of Law
“This book is a crucial intervention in the long-running discourse about a method of constitutional interpretation that has gained ascendancy in recent years. Gienapp’s persuasive pushback should be read by all who are concerned about the future of American constitutional law and the American Republic.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
“This is a critically important book about how our Constitution is read. It shakes the foundation of current practice to its core, and its conclusions will take time to be accepted by judges and lawyers. But the book will eventually change fundamentally the practice of constitutional jurisprudence. When it does, it will allow our law to become more democratically accountable—to the people who enact our laws, not the ancestors in our constitutional tradition.”—Lawrence Lessig, coauthor of How to Steal a Presidential Election
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Descriere
A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority