William W. Van Alstyne, Clashing Visions of a “Living” Constitution, CATO Supreme Court Review 2011 (Forthcoming Sept. 2011), available at SSRN.

Charles Shanor

Can a constitution “live”? Is the alternative to a “living” constitution reinterpreted and modernized by judges a “dead” constitution hopelessly out of touch with modern realities? William Van Alstyne, in Clashing Visions of a “Living” Constitution critiques (nay, mocks) several schools of living constitutionalism and sets out what he believes is the one true path to a living constitution. […]