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Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

2012

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Оригиналистская Доктрина В Конституционном Праве Сша, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy Jan 2012

Оригиналистская Доктрина В Конституционном Праве Сша, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Studying of concepts of the constitutional interpretation in the USA allows to get more deeply into essence of the Constitutional System of the State, to understand the reasons and sources of its evolutionary development. The originalism represents a wide spectrum of the concepts aimed at explanation of original understanding, value of the Constitution of the USA or intentions of its «founding fathers». The theoretical base of the originalism is the Legal Positivism embodied in XX century into the Normativism. The originalists are united in the American Constitution Society. Among the originalists two sects are allocated: textualists and intentionalists