Reading Poets

Authors

Joseph P. Tomain

Document Type

Essay

Abstract

(Excerpt)

Quite simply, Joseph the lawyer, poet, and scholar has developed a jurisprudence of his own. Joseph's jurisprudence, however, and to the good, cannot be reduced to a single word like originalism, or even a label like liberal democratic-though he may be in fact. Rather, the resultant jurisprudence refracts off a multitude of ideas and attitudes contained within the book's various prose pieces. This Essay first describes the mechanics of The Game Changed and then identifies and briefly comments upon several of those ideas and attitudes that comprise Joseph's jurisprudence that go Into It.