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Book Reviews, Ernest Van Den Haag, James F. Neal
Book Reviews, Ernest Van Den Haag, James F. Neal
Vanderbilt Law Review
Consensual Government "The Morality of Consent" by Alexander M. Bickel
Reviewed by Ernest van den Haag
Bickel wanted to make the scope of the law comprehensive enough to proclaim the norms that are consensually perceived to be necessary to social life, yet to let individuals and groups pursue their choices without being forced to conform altogether to majority views or being strapped into judicial strait jackets. His work, and the unifying theme of this posthumous collection of essays, very largely consisted of elaborations of his answer to the question: how can we define the province of constitutional interpretation so as …