\"A great power of attorney\" understanding the fiduciary constitution by Lawson, Gary, 1958- author, Seidman, Guy, author; Project Muse instant download

\"A great power of attorney\" understanding the fiduciary constitution by Lawson, Gary, 1958- author, Seidman, Guy, author; Project Muse instant download

1 online resource (pages cm.), The United States Constitution is best understood, for purposes of interpretation, as a kind of fiduciary instrument, in which people entrust management of some of their affairs to others. Those kinds of documents were well known to eighteenth-century drafters and readers, and the Constitution is therefore best read against the background of fiduciary law with which the founding generation would have been familiar, Includes index, What the Constitution is-and why it matters -- The fiduciary background of the founding era -- Fiduciary government -- Categorizing the Constitution -- Incidental powers -- The duty of personal exercise of delegated power -- Duties of care and loyalty -- Impartiality, Description based on print version record