TY - BOOK ID - 77900073 TI - The failed promise of originalism PY - 2013 SN - 0804784698 9780804784696 9780804783828 9780804785075 0804783829 0804785074 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Constitutional law KW - Law KW - Interpretation and construction. KW - United States. KW - Supreme Court (U.S.) KW - Chief Justice of the United States KW - Supreme Court of the United States KW - 美國. KW - United States KW - Interpretation and construction KW - United States. Supreme Court UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900073 AB - Originalism is an enormously popular-and equally criticized-theory of constitutional interpretation. As Elena Kagan stated at her confirmation hearing, ""We are all originalists."" Scores of articles have been written on whether the Court should use originalism, and some have examined how the Court employed originalism in particular cases, but no one has studied the overall practice of originalism.The primary point of this book is an examination of the degree to which originalism influences the Court's decisions. Frank B. Cross tests this by examining whether originalism appears t ER -