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Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy / Victoria Nourse.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674971899
  • 9780674974265
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 349.73 23
LOC classification:
  • KF425 .N68 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)