TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nourse,Victoria
TI  - Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy
SN  - 9780674971899
AV  - KF425 .N68 2016
U1  - 349.73 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Law
KW  - United States
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Legislative histories
KW  - Statutes
KW  - LAW / Courts
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: The Paradox of American Civic Illiteracy --; 1. Congress Is Not a Court --; 2. Statutory Interpretation Theories Misunderstand Congress --; 3. A Legislative Decision Theory of Statutory Interpretation --; 4. Petty Textualism, Canons, and Cognitive Bias --; 5. What Is Legislative Intent? Evidence of Context --; 6. The Constitutional Argument for Legislative Evidence --; Epilogue: Courts and Congress as Faithful Agents of Democracy --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Victoria Nourse argues that lawyers must be educated on the basic procedures that define how Congress operates today. Lawmaking creates winners and losers. If lawyers and judges do not understand this, they may embrace the meanings of those who opposed legislation, turning legislative losers into judicial winners and standing democracy on its head
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974265
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674974265
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