Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1988
Abstract
This essay is about ultimate standards of law in the United States. Not surprisingly, our federal Constitution figures prominently in any account of our ultimate standards of law, and a discussion of its place is an apt jurisprudential endeavor for the bicentennial of the constitutional convention. Although in passing I offer some comments on constitutional principles, this essay is not about how the Constitution, or indeed other legal materials, should be understood and interpreted. Rather, it attempts to discern the jurisprudential implications of widespread practices involving the Constitution and other standards of law.
Disciplines
Law | Law and Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Kent Greenawalt,
The Rule of Recognition and the Constitution,
85
Mich. L. Rev.
621
(1988).
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