The Nature of Legislative Intent by Ekins, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Series Editors’ Preface The Cover Picture Acknowledgements Contents List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Sceptical Arguments

I. Stipulating Legislative Intent II. Hermes and ‘the Catalogue of Mysteries’ III. The Unitary Model and Its Discontents IV. An Alternative: the Voting Machine Model V. Arrow’s Theorem and the Legislative Process

3. Joint Intention and Group Agency

I. The Futility of Summing Intentions II. Joint Intention and Group Action III. Complex Group Action IV. Discursive Dilemmas and Collective Irrationality V. The Idea of Group Agency

4. Legislating Without Reasoning

I. The Forum of Policy II. Technical Problems With Preference Aggregation III. Reasons and Preferences IV. The Authority of Unintentional Legislation V. Rationality and the Voting Machine VI. The Minimal Intention Argument VII. Intelligible Legislating

5. What It Is to Legislate

I. Legislative Capacity II. How One Reasons to Legislate III. The Act of Legislating IV. Legislative Integrity

6. The Legislative Assembly

I. The Problem of the Sole Legislator II. Representation and Deliberation III. The Advantage of an Assembly IV. The Internal Hierarchy of the Legislature V. Washington and Westminster VI. Prospects for Reasoned Action

7. Language Use and Intention

I. The Language Code II. Language Use Is Rational Action III. The Underdetermination Thesis IV. Pragmatics V. Legislative Language Use

8. The Nature of Legislative Intent

I. The Standing Intention of the Legislature II. Parliamentary Procedure III. Legislative Intent in Particular Acts IV. Agency and Compromise

9. Intentions in Interpretation

I. The Object of Interpretation II. Intentions, Purposes, and Applications III. Legislative Context IV. The Use and Misuse of Context: Some Examples V. The Relevance of Legislative History VI. Equitable Interpretation

Bibliography Index Footnotes

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