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Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

by Richard A. Posner

2003 416 pages eng

Argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government, and views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by discretion rather than by rules. Further argues that democracy is best viewed as a competitio…

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