Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Normative Scripture-Christian and American -- A Personal Introduction -- Great Code -- In Accordance with the Scriptures" -- Christian Scripture -- Constitutions and Other "Peoples of the Book" -- American Scriptures -- The Interpretive Communities -- Text and Context -- "Binocular Vision" -- 2 Cruxes of Interpretation in the Bible and in the -- Interpretive Imperatives -- "Unless Someone Will Give Me the Clue" -- Interpretation as a Crux Interpretum: "The Thickness of Legal Meaning" -- "Outbreaks" and "Quiet Instants" -- The Ordinary and the Extraordinary Magisterium -- Interpretive Ambiguities Shared by the Bible and the Constitution -- Absolute or "Contemporary Community Standards"? -- The Final Arbiter -- 3 The Sensus Literalis and the Quest for Original Intent -- The Spirit and the Letter -- The Sensus Plenior: Radiations, Penumbras, Allegories, "Analogical Extensions -- "Eyewitnesses from the Beginning": The Originalist Impulse -- An Interdisciplinary Approach -- "Learning's Crabbed Text": The Critique of Originalism -- "Textual Support in the Constitutional Language": The Authority of the Original -- "Historical Philology" / "Sacred Philology" -- "Authorized Versions" as Authoritative Interpretations -- 4 Development of Doctrine: Patterns and Criteria -- "An Inner Dimension of Tradition" -- "New Insights in Harmony with the Old" -- "First Note. Preservation of Its Type [Preservation of Type or Idea] -- "Second Note. Continuity of Its Principles -- "Third Note. Its Power of Assimilation [Power of -- "Fourth Note. Its Logical Sequence [Logical -- "Fifth Note. Anticipation of Its Future [Early -- "Sixth Note. Conservative Action upon Its Past -- "Seventh Note. Its Chronic Vigor [Chronic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.

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