TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farber,Daniel A.
AU  - Sherry,Suzanna
TI  - Desperately seeking certainty: the misguided quest for constitutional foundations 
SN  - 9780226238104 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KF4550 .F367 2002eb
U1  - 342.73 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - United States
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Law
KW  - LAW
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-202) and index; Preface; 1. Of Law and Latkes; 2. In the Beginning:Robert Bork and Other Originalists; 3. The Formalist Crusade of Antonin Scalia; 4. Richard Epstein and the Incredible Shrinking Government; 5. Akhil Amar and the People's Court; 6. Bruce Ackerman's Magic Amendment Machine; 7. Ronald Dworkin and the City on the Hill; 8. Dethroning Grand Theory; Appendix; Notes; Index
N2  - Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multif
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