
Nature of Legislative Intent
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Content
- Cover
- 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
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