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Laurence Tribe on the Invisible Constitution

September 25, 2008

Laurence Tribe professor, Harvard Law School

Laurence Tribe discusses the evolution of how we interpret our country's most important document. The renowned legal scholar argues that between the lines of our parchment Constitution, there is an "invisible Constitution." Tribe purports that some of our most cherished and widely held beliefs about our constitutional rights are not even included in the written document. How does this "invisible Constitution" impact the central constitutional debates of our time from gun control to abortion to wire-tapping? How has this framework for reading the Constitution evolved, and how does it work?

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Author: Laurence H. Tribe

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2008)

Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

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