Ways of reading the constitution

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dc.contributor.authorMurray, William L.en
dc.contributor.departmentPublic Administration and Policyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:32:01Zen
dc.date.adate2010-03-17en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:32:01Zen
dc.date.issued1991en
dc.date.rdate2010-03-17en
dc.date.sdate2010-03-17en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores various approaches to constitutional interpretation, paying particular attention to the literalist approach to reading the Constitution set forth by W.W. Crosskey in Politics and the Constitution. Crosskey’s approach is compared to and contrasted with John Rohr’s intentionalist approach to reading the Constitution and the approach of judicial activism. Drawing from literary theory, this thesis outlines Stanley Fish and Robert Scholes’ approaches to reading. Fish, like judicial activists, subordinates the text to the reader. Scholes, like Crosskey, argument for textual primacy. These literary critics mirror the debate in constitutional scholarship over where meaning lies: with the text or with the reader. The debate over interpreting the Constitution adds to the tradition in public administration of normatively grounding the discipline in the Constitution. If this attempt at finding a normative grounding for public administration is to be successful, it must consider issues of interpretation.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Public Administrationen
dc.format.extentiv, 132 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-03172010-020515en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03172010-020515/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/41700en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1991.M877.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 25208867en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1991.M877en
dc.subject.lcshConstitutional law -- United Statesen
dc.titleWays of reading the constitutionen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic Administration and Policyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Public Administrationen

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