The book makes inquires as to whether the document should be preserved as interpreted by Originalists or can be subject to change as interpreted by Progressives---the “Living” Document theorists and the “Dead” Document opponents. It is argued that the power of judicial review must be withdrawn from the Supreme Court and the need for the modernization of the American political institutions.
The book’s approach is to use an interdisciplinary methodology by which it weaves a linear and non-linear aspects of inquiry. The book will be of interested to a broad readership, including those working in the fields of (constitutional) law, legal history. political philosophy, political science and political theory.
George Skouras is a New York attorney and an independent researcher. He has published in the following domains of inquiry: law, jurisprudence, constitutionalism, democratic theory and philosophy, and the nature of historical inquiry. Earlier in his career he also published on the nature of land use law and toxic and hazardous substances.