Books written by Scott Douglas Gerber
-
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
McMillian,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 15 (summer 1992): 1050–60; Jeffrey D. Bukowski, Case Note, “The Eighth Amendment and Original Intent: Applying the Prohibition against Cruel and Unusual Punishments to Prison ...
-
To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation
Gerber (government, College of William and Mary) argues that the US Constitution should be interpreted in light of the natural rights political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that the Supreme Court should be primarily ...
-
To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation
The draft is written in Roger Sherman's hand. The second numbered paragraph reads as follows: 2. The people have certain natural rights which are retained by them when they enter into Society, Such are the rights of Conscience in ...
-
A Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606-1787
DELAWARE: A HIGH COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS Bushman , Claudia L. , Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Momsey, eds . Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the State of Delaware, 1781–1792 and of the Constitutional Convention of ...
-
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
See Clarke D. Forsythe, “The Historical Origins of Broad Habeas Review Reconsidered,”Notre Dame Law Review 70, no. 4 (1995): 1079–171, 1083. 67. 505 U.S. 277 (1992). 68. 502 U.S. 1021 (1991) (memorandum). Justices Blackmun and Stevens ...
-
To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation
Importantly, the theory advanced in this book - what Gerber calls "liberal originalism" - is neither consistently "liberal" nor consistently "conservative" in the modern conception of those terms.
-
Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall
The ten essays in this tightly edited volume were especially commissioned for the book, each by the leading authority on his or her particular subject.
-
Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall
The ten essays in this tightly edited volume were especially commissioned for the book, each by the leading authority on his or her particular subject.
-
Law and Religion in Colonial America: The Dissenting Colonies
... Loyal PROTESTANTS AND DANGEROUS PAPISTS : MARYLAND AND THE POLITICS OF Religion in the ENGLISH ATLANTIC , 1630–1690 ( 2015 ) ( an explor- ation of the impact of trans - Atlantic politics on colonial Maryland ) . The Maryland Historical ...
-
Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall
The ten essays in this tightly edited volume were especially commissioned for the book, each by the leading authority on his or her particular subject.
-
A Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606-1787
... American Journal of Legal History 50 (2008–2010): 305. Maryland Constitution of 1776. Nelson, William E. The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607–1660. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 ...
-
The Declaration of Independence: Origins and Impact
The reference series, Landmark Events in U.S. History, uses both contributed essays from eminent scholars and excerpts of primary source documents with explanatory headnotes to focus on critical events in...
-
Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall
The ten essays in this tightly edited volume were especially commissioned for the book, each by the leading authority on their particular subject.