Publication
Constitutional Commentary
Volume
32
Page
27
Year
2017
Abstract
In law – and in many other social activities, including music, art, and literature – reasonable people can and do argue over the best conception of interpretation. Intended meaning is unquestionably one candidate, but there are others. To choose among plausible accounts of what interpretation entails, judges and lawyers need to think about the world and to look outward, rather than to pretend that definitions can solve the problem. They need to ask which approach would make our constitutional order better rather than worse.
Recommended Citation
Sunstein, Cass R., "Formalism in Constitutional Theory" (2017). Constitutional Commentary. 2.
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/concomm/2
