Stephen E Sachs
Biographic Data
| ID | 6504794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen E Sachs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachs |
| SIGNATURE | SACHS S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9125-074X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Originalism and the Law of the Past
Originalism has long been criticized for its “law office history” and other historical sins. But a recent “positive turn” in originalist thought may help make peace between history and law. On this theory, originalism is best understood as a claim about our modern law--which borrows many of its rules, constitutional or otherwise, from the law of the past. Our law happens to be the Founders' law, unless lawfully changed. This theory has three impo…
The Bureaucrat and the Enthusiast: An Exploration of the Leadership of Social Movements
but pessimistic about man in the concrete, the bureaucrat takes the world as he finds it judges men as men, rather than as Man, whom he has never met probably never worried about. Second, the bureaucrat's agnosticism nominalism his rejection of the enthusiast's true faith abstract man -combine to make him profoundly suspicious of short-cuts; he is likely to be satisfied with piecemeal progress, scorning as fatuous unrealistic the or nothing appro…
The Bureaucrat and the Enthusiast: An Exploration of the Leadership of Social Movements
but pessimistic about man in the concrete, the bureaucrat takes the world as he finds it judges men as men, rather than as Man, whom he has never met probably never worried about. Second, the bureaucrat's agnosticism nominalism his rejection of the enthusiast's true faith abstract man -combine to make him profoundly suspicious of short-cuts; he is likely to be satisfied with piecemeal progress, scorning as fatuous unrealistic the or nothing appro…
The Bureaucrat and the Enthusiast: An Exploration of the Leadership of Social Movements
but pessimistic about man in the concrete, the bureaucrat takes the world as he finds it judges men as men, rather than as Man, whom he has never met probably never worried about. Second, the bureaucrat's agnosticism nominalism his rejection of the enthusiast's true faith abstract man -combine to make him profoundly suspicious of short-cuts; he is likely to be satisfied with piecemeal progress, scorning as fatuous unrealistic the or nothing appro…
Originalism and the Law of the Past
Originalism has long been criticized for its “law office history” and other historical sins. But a recent “positive turn” in originalist thought may help make peace between history and law. On this theory, originalism is best understood as a claim about our modern law--which borrows many of its rules, constitutional or otherwise, from the law of the past. Our law happens to be the Founders' law, unless lawfully changed. This theory has three impo…
Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agnosticism (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Anachronism (1 works) · Common law (1 works) · Constitutional law (1 works)