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- Title
FOUR VIEWS OF THE NATURE OF THE UNION.
- Authors
CAMPBELL, JUD
- Abstract
This Essay summarizes four Founding-Era views about the nature of the Union and the key interpretive implications that followed from those views. In doing so, it emphasizes the importance of social-contract theory and engages a recent scholarly debate over the influence of the law of nations on Founding-Era constitutional interpretation. Without taking a position about which view of the Union was correct, the Essay aims to illuminate the range of interpretive possibilities, including ones informed more by social-contractarian premises than by the law of nations.
- Subjects
SOCIAL contract; CONSTITUTIONAL law; INTERNATIONAL law; CONSTITUTIONAL history; CONSTITUTIONS
- Publication
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2024, Vol 47, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
0193-4872
- Publication type
Article