AGAINST FIDUCIARY CONSTITUTIONALISM

A growing body of scholarship draws connections between fiduciary law and the Constitution. In much of this literature, the Constitution is described as a fiduciary instrument that establishes fiduciary duties, not least for the President of the United States. This Article examines and critiques the...

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Published in:Virginia law review 2020-11, Vol.106 (7), p.1479-1532
Main Authors: Bray, Samuel L., Miller, Paul B.
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Evaluation
FIDUCIARY
Fiduciary duties
Fiduciary responsibility
GOOD FAITH
Good faith (Law)
Influence
Interpretation and construction
Law and legislation
Laws, regulations and rules
Legal research
Management
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
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U.S. states
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description A growing body of scholarship draws connections between fiduciary law and the Constitution. In much of this literature, the Constitution is described as a fiduciary instrument that establishes fiduciary duties, not least for the President of the United States. This Article examines and critiques the claims of fiduciary constitutionalism. Although a range of arguments are made in this literature, there are common failings. Some of these involve a literalistic misreading of the works of leading political philosophers (e.g., Plato and Locke). Other failings involve fiduciary law, such as mistakes about how to identify fiduciary relationships and about the content and enforcement of fiduciary duties. Still other failings sound in constitutional law, including the attempt to locate the genre of the Constitution in the categories of private fiduciary law. These criticisms suggest weaknesses in the new and increasingly influential attempt to develop fiduciary constitutionalism.
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Fiduciary duties
Fiduciary responsibility
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Good faith (Law)
Influence
Interpretation and construction
Law and legislation
Laws, regulations and rules
Legal research
Management
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