InReinventing American Jurisprudence: Law through the Lens of Value, George David Miller and Laura Brown unfurl an original approach to value and an imaginative landscape in philosophy of law. Value essentialism identifies value formations such as a sacred cow and scapegoat tandem and the intensification of oughtness as it approaches sacred zenith values. Readers learn how Occams razor has been responsible for the death of many ideas; how the celebrated Other gains nuance as near and remote; and where a spectralassessment of probability and necessity leads. Analyses of Supreme Court cases grow out in different and exciting directions.Buckwas not about eugenics, but another iteration of the value of efficiency and Yo Wick was decided less on law and more on a justices finding humanity in Chinese laundry mat proprietors.Lochnerinvolved not an ideological binary but three distinct value schemes. Separate but equal was refined as parallelism and exploitative tangents. InBrown, the Fourteenth Amendment took a significant subjective turn. InHeller, the communitarian position of stopping violence before it began could be contrasted with the individualistic position of waiting until you see the whites of their eyes in your bedroom.Citizens United was distilled into the question: was the First Amendment designed to maximize participation or maximize democracy?

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Part I: Introduction to a New Theory of Law

Chapter 1: The Primacy of Value

Chapter 2: Law Theories through the Lens of Value

Part II: Supreme Court Cases

Chapter 3: Self-Determination v. Efficiency, Buck v. Bell

Chapter 4: Human Being v. Degraded Being, Yo Wick v. Hopkins

Chapter 5: Security of Free Speech v. Wartime National Security, Abrams v. United States

Chapter 6: Partial Personhood v. Property, Dred Scott v. Sandford

Chapter 7: Integration as a Means of Securing Personal Liberty for All v. Segregation as a Means

of Securing White Supremacy and Limiting Personal Freedom, Plessy v. Ferguson

Chapter 8: Liberty Over Paternalism v. Judicious State Intervention Over Exploitative Liberty,

Lochner v. New York

Chapter 9: The Value of Interdependence v. Value of a Private and Independent Economic

Sphere, Wickard v. Filburn

Chapter 10: The Sacred Value of Privacy in Marriage v. Traditionalism, Griswold v. Connecticut

Chapter 11: Malicious Free Speech v. Libel of a Government Official, New York Times Co. v.

Sullivan

Chapter 12: The Subjective Turn of the Fourteenth Amendment vs. Separate but Equal, Brown v.

Board of Education of Topeka

Chapter 13: Collective Safety Net v. Individualistic Self-Defense, District of Columbia v. Heller

Chapter 14: The Absolute Value of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment v. Value of

Spiritual Heritage, Engel v. Vitale

Chapter 15: The Value of Privacy in the Bedroom vs. the Value of Social Stability, Lawrence v.

Texas

Chapter 16: Weaponized Words v. Fruition of Conscience in Action, Brandenburg v. Ohio

Chapter 17: Invidious Discrimination v. the Purity of White Supremacy, Loving v. Virginia

Chapter 18: Health v. Liberty, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

Chapter 19: Venerated Objects v. Freedom of Speech, Texas v. Johnson

Chapter 20: Functional Judiciary v. National Security, United States v. Nixon

Chapter 21: The First Amendment as a Means to Secure Corporate Dominance v. First

Amendment as a Means to Secure Democracy, Citizens United v. Federal Election

Commission

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