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The New Unwritten Constitution
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rubenfeld, Jed |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Americans do not know what to think about unwritten constitutional law. On the one hand, we know we have it, and we have had it for a very long time. Unwritten constitutional law did not begin with Roe v. Wade.' From the very beginning, American judges have been prepared to enforce constitutional rights that cannot fairly be said to derive from any enumerated textual guarantee.2 The Framers themselves, we are told, understood constitutional rights in unwritten, natural-law terms,3 drawing on the English lex non scripta and "ancient constitution" traditions4 passed down to them by Blackstone and |
| Starting Page | 289 |
| Ending Page | 305 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2307/1373234 |
| Volume Number | 51 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2557&context=fss_papers&httpsredir=1&referer= |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2557&context=fss_papers |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127&context=dlj |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.2307/1373234 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
