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You Say You'll Change the Constitution?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Keith E. Whittington
Keith E. Whittington
Affiliation:
Princeton University and University of Texas, Austin (kwhittington@law.utexas.edu)
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Ten years from now, what kinds of issues of interest to politics will dominate the agenda of the United States Supreme Court? Will a dominant approach to constitutional interpretation emerge to guide the justices in their handling of these significant cases?Keith E. Whittington is professor of politics at Princeton University and visiting professor of law at the University of Texas, Austin (kwhittington@law.utexas.edu).

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SYMPOSIUM: TEN YEARS FROM NOW
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 570 - 572
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© 2005 American Political Science Association

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