Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of "Great Code," but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution-the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively-have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically "constitutional" or "biblical," and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.
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- An Essay On Development Of Christian Doctrine (Notre Dame Series in the Great Books, No 4) by John Henry Newman on 4 pages
- The Bill of Rights (Irvington Reprint Series in Political Science) by Hugo L. Black on page 21, page 81, and Back Matter
- John Marshall by Richard Carl Brown on page 142, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Holy Spirit (Puritan Paperbacks: Treasures of John Owen for Today's Readers) by John Owen on page 91, and Back Matter
- The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment by Leonard W. Levy on page 64, and Back Matter
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- Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology by Warren Samuels on page 79
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