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America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By

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America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By

onal discussions; and the writings of court justices.

Americaâ€™s Unwritten Constitution presents a bold new vision of the American constitutional system, one in which proper interpretation of the Constitution rests on the interplay between its written and unwritten manifestations, but in which interpretation does not, and cannot, depend wholly on one form or the other. Neither Americaâ€™s written Constitution nor its unwritten Constitution stands alone, Amar shows, and with each eye-opening example he develops a deeper, more compelling way of thinking about constitutional law than has ever been put forth beforeâ€”a methodology that looks past the basic text to reveal the diverse influences, supplements, and possibilities that comprise it.

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