The invisible constitution in comparative perspective / edited by Rosalind Dixon, University of New South Wales, Sydney ; Adrienne Stone, University of Melbourne.
"Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective helps us understand thes...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series page; Title page; Imprints page; Contents; Contributors; Part I Conceptualising the Invisible Constitution; 1 The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective; 1.1. Conceptual Understandings: Extra-textual Constitutional Sources and Influences; 1.1.1. Sociological Understandings
- or the 'Hidden' Constitution; 1.2. Contributors' Understandings; 1.2.1. The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Context; 1.2.2. The Invisible Constitution: Unanswered Questions and Future Directions; 2 Soundings and Silences; 2.1. Door-Closing Silences versus Door-Opening Silences
- 2.2. Structural Silences versus Silences about Rights2.3. Silences in the Constitution Generally versus Silences in the Constitution's Rules of Interpretation; 2.4. Silences in the Constitution Itself versus Silences in What Is Said about the Constitution; 3 Originalism and the Invisible Constitution; 3.1. Introduction: The Problem for Originalists of an Invisible Constitution; 3.2. Originalist Constitutional Theory in the United States; 3.2.1. Communicative Content and Legal Content; 3.2.2. The Core of Originalism; 3.3. Public Meaning Originalism
- 3.4. The Interpretation-Construction Distinction3.5. Constitutional Text and Extra-textual Sources; 3.5.1. Typology: Sources of Constitutional Norms; 3.5.2. Three Roles for Extra-textual Sources in Constitutional Interpretation and Construction; 3.6. Originalism and Extra-textual Constitutional Content; 3.6.1. Constitutional Implications; 3.6.2. Four Forms of Contextual Enrichment; 3.6.3. Contextual Enrichment and Originalist Theory; 3.6.4. The Ninth Amendment; 3.6.5. Extra-textual Constructions of Written Clauses; 3.6.6. Holism and Structure; 3.6.7. Extra-textual Fundamental Law
- 3.6.8. Nonconstitutional Texts3.6.9. Precedent; 3.6.10. Historical Practice; 3.7. Conclusion: The Case for the Primacy of the Visible Constitution; 4 The Implicit and the Implied in a Written Constitution; 4.1. Clarifying and Creative Interpretation; 4.2. Clarifying Interpretation, Contextual Enrichment, Express and Implied Meaning; 4.3. Contextual Enrichment and Express Meaning; 4.3.1. Indexical Terms; 4.3.2. Relational Terms; 4.3.3. Ambiguous Terms; 4.3.4. Elliptical Expressions; 4.4. Contextual Enrichment and Implied Meaning; 4.4.1. Presuppositions; 4.4.2. Implicatures
- 4.4.3. Implications Extrapolated by Induction4.4.4. Implicit Assumptions, Supplementations and Qualifications; 4.4.5. Obviousness as a Requirement for Implications; 4.5. Rectifying Interpretation and Fabricated Implications; 4.6. Implications Inferred from 'Objective' Purposes; 4.7. Conclusion: Inexplicit Content and Lawmakers' Intentions; 5 The Centrality and Diversity of the Invisible Constitution; 5.1. Anti-positivism and the Invisibility of the Constitution; 5.2. Constitutions and Rules of Recognition; 5.3. 'Thick' Validation and Invisibility