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List of Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Sceptical Arguments | p. 15 |
Stipulating Legislative Intent | p. 15 |
Hermes and 'the Catalogue of Mysteries' | p. 20 |
The Unitary Model and Its Discontents | p. 30 |
An Alternative: the Voting Machine Model | p. 34 |
Arrow's Theorem and the Legislative Process | p. 40 |
Joint Intention and Group Agency | p. 47 |
The Futility of Summing Intentions | p. 47 |
Joint Intention and Group Action | p. 52 |
Complex Group Action | p. 57 |
Discursive Dilemmas and Collective Irrationality | p. 66 |
The Idea of Group Agency | p. 71 |
Legislating Without Reasoning | p. 77 |
The Forum of Policy | p. 77 |
Technical Problems With Preference Aggregation | p. 85 |
Reasons and Preferences | p. 88 |
The Authority of Unintentional Legislation | p. 94 |
Rationality and the Voting Machine | p. 99 |
The Minimal Intention Argument | p. 107 |
Intelligible Legislating | p. 112 |
What It Is to Legislate | p. 118 |
Legislative Capacity | p. 118 |
How One Reasons to Legislate | p. 127 |
The Act of Legislating | p. 135 |
Legislative Integrity | p. 139 |
The Legislative Assembly | p. 143 |
The Problem of the Sole Legislator | p. 143 |
Representation and Deliberation | p. 146 |
The Advantage of an Assembly | p. 155 |
The Internal Hierarchy of the Legislature | p. 161 |
Washington and Westminster | p. 169 |
Prospects for Reasoned Action | p. 173 |
Language Use and Intention | p. 180 |
The Language Code | p. 181 |
Language Use Is Rational Action | p. 193 |
The Underdetermination Thesis | p. 196 |
Pragmatics | p. 205 |
Legislative Language Use | p. 211 |
The Nature of Legislative Intent | p. 218 |
The Standing Intention of the Legislature | p. 219 |
Parliamentary Procedure | p. 224 |
Legislative Intent in Particular Acts | p. 230 |
Agency and Compromise | p. 236 |
Intentions in Interpretation | p. 244 |
The Object of Interpretation | p. 244 |
Intentions, Purposes, and Applications | p. 249 |
Legislative Context | p. 256 |
The Use and Misuse of Context: Some Examples | p. 261 |
The Relevance of Legislative History | p. 268 |
Equitable Interpretation | p. 275 |
Bibliography | p. 285 |
Index | p. 294 |
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