前事不忘,后事之师:原创主义时代的民主

IF 0.6 2区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN
Geoffrey R Kirsch
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这篇文章回顾了最近出版的三本书,它们探讨了美国宪政民主的历史和意义,这三本书写于一个原教旨主义、保守的最高法院充当宪法最终仲裁者的时代。美国的民主:D. Berton Emerson 和 Gregory Laski 编辑的《美国的民主:十九世纪和今天的关键词》和《从未有过的国家》:克米特-罗斯福三世(Kermit Roosevelt III)所著的《从未有过的国家:重构美国的故事》(The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story)一书努力将原典主义方法用于进步目的。相比之下,卡斯-R-孙斯坦(Cass R. Sunstein)的《如何解释宪法》(How to Interpret the Constitution)则对任何此类受历史约束的解释模式持务实的怀疑态度。我认为,自 19 世纪以来,这些方法之间的紧张关系一直影响着美国的宪法论述。
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What’s Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism
This essay reviews three recent books grappling with the history and meaning of US constitutional democracy, written in a time when an originalist, conservative Supreme Court serves as the Constitution’s final arbiter. Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today, edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski, and The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story, by Kermit Roosevelt III, strive to appropriate originalist methods toward progressive ends. By contrast, Cass R. Sunstein’s How to Interpret the Constitution evinces a pragmatic skepticism of any such historically bound modes of interpretation. The tension between these approaches, I suggest, has shaped US constitutional discourse since the nineteenth century.
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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY LITERATURE, AMERICAN-
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期刊介绍: Recent Americanist scholarship has generated some of the most forceful responses to questions about literary history and theory. Yet too many of the most provocative essays have been scattered among a wide variety of narrowly focused publications. Covering the study of US literature from its origins through the present, American Literary History provides a much-needed forum for the various, often competing voices of contemporary literary inquiry. Along with an annual special issue, the journal features essay-reviews, commentaries, and critical exchanges. It welcomes articles on historical and theoretical problems as well as writers and works. Inter-disciplinary studies from related fields are also invited.
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