A Reply to Gonzalez, Interpreting This Constitution: Another Response to Professor Van Alstyne

Van Alstyne, William W.

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A Reply to Gonzalez, Interpreting This Constitution: Another Response to Professor Van Alstyne

William W. Van Alstyne

William & Mary Law School

September 21, 2011

Revista Juridica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. 56, p. 759, 1987
William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-147

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This response continues the ongoing discussion between Professor Van Alstyne and Professor Alvarez-Gonzalez regarding the interpretation of the Constitution. Van Alstyne responds to Gonzalez’s concerns by emphasizing the use history serves in constitutional interpretations and confronting the nature of interpretive methodologies used by the Court, or rather, the lack there of.

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Keywords: judicial review, interpretation

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Date posted: September 21, 2011 ; Last revised: October 6, 2011

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Van Alstyne, William W., A Reply to Gonzalez, Interpreting This Constitution: Another Response to Professor Van Alstyne (September 21, 2011). Revista Juridica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. 56, p. 759, 1987; William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-147. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1931282

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