Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne Studia nad Prawem

Tertium non datur? American Originalism and Polarization in Democracy

Maćkowska, Katarzyna

Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II

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Abstract

Originalism – as one of the main approaches to the interpretation of the U.S. federal Constitution – has been increasingly viewed as an instrument of political struggle in the hands of the judiciary. This article offers a discussion of the effects of origi-nalist interpretation, which enable legal orders with different axiology to exist in a federal state. The above situation raises the question of the legitimacy of accepting legal relativism and consent to the creation of parallel juridical realities when the degree of polarisation makes it impossible to seek compromise. The purpose of the article is to highlight that, paradoxically, originalism can strengthen the stabilising and organising role of law in line with the concept of E pluribus unum.

Metadata

Journal Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne Studia nad Prawem 
Volume 16 
Issue 2 
Issue date 6/2024 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 238-250
DOI 10.7206/kp.2080-1084.688
ISSN 2080-1084
eISSN 2450-7938