Translation Approaches in Constitutional Hermeneutics

Lind, Hans; Mulligan, Christina; Douma, Michael; Quinn, Brian

Translation Approaches in Constitutional Hermeneutics

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2020

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Lind, Hans

Mulligan, Christina

Douma, Michael

Quinn, Brian

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Open Access Hybrid

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International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. Springer. 2020, 33(2), pp. 299-323. ISSN 0952-8059. eISSN 1572-8722. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11196-020-09708-7

Zusammenfassung

In this article, we suggest an alternate approach to interpreting the US Constitution, using founding-era translations. We demonstrate how both symmetries and asymmetries in structure and vocabulary of the languages involved can help in deciding nowadays’ problems of constitutional interpretation. We select seven controversial passages of the US constitution to illustrate our approach: Art. I, § 8, cl. 3 (“to regulate commerce”); Art. II, § 1, cl. 5 (“natural born citizen”); Art. II, § 2, cl. 3 (“recess”); Art. I, § 6, cl. 1/Art. I, § 8, cl. 10/Art. IV, § 2 (“felony”); and Art. IV, § 2, cl. 1 (“privileges and immunities”). Since these passages have recently been debated by constitutional scholars, reassessing them using our method can establish the additional value of our approach to constitutional practice. We presume that our approach is not limited to interpreting the US constitution, but suggest that constitutional hermeneutics in general could profit from adding a translation approach to the toolkit.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

Constitution, Interpretation, German, Dutch, Translation, Originalism

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LIND, Hans, Christina MULLIGAN, Michael DOUMA, Brian QUINN, 2020. Translation Approaches in Constitutional Hermeneutics. In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. Springer. 2020, 33(2), pp. 299-323. ISSN 0952-8059. eISSN 1572-8722. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11196-020-09708-7

BibTex

@article{Lind2020-06Trans-50537,
  year={2020},
  doi={10.1007/s11196-020-09708-7},
  title={Translation Approaches in Constitutional Hermeneutics},
  number={2},
  volume={33},
  issn={0952-8059},
  journal={International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique},
  pages={299--323},
  author={Lind, Hans and Mulligan, Christina and Douma, Michael and Quinn, Brian}
}

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