Responding to imperfection the theory and practice of constitutional amendment
Introduction: imperfection and amendability / Sanford Levinson -- How many times has the United States Constitution been amended? (A) <26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) >27: accounting for constitutional change / Sanford Levinson -- Constitutionalism in the United States: from theory to politics / Steph...
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Press
1995
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: imperfection and amendability / Sanford Levinson -- How many times has the United States Constitution been amended? (A) <26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) >27: accounting for constitutional change / Sanford Levinson -- Constitutionalism in the United States: from theory to politics / Stephen M. Griffin -- Higher lawmaking / Bruce Ackerman -- Popular sovereignty and constitutional amendment / Akhil Reed Amar -- The plain meaning of Article V / David R. Dow -- Amending the presuppositions of a constitution / Frederick Schauer -- Merlin's memory: the past and future imperfect of the once and future polity / Walter F. Murphy -- The case against implicit limits on the constitutional amending process / John R. Vile -- The "original" Thirteenth Amendment and the limits to formal constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon -- Toward a theory of constitutional amendment / Donald S. Lutz -- The politics of constitutional revision in Eastern Europe / Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein -- Midrash: amendment through the molding of meaning / Noam J. Zohar. Introduction: imperfection and amendability / Sanford Levinson -- How many times has the United States Constitution been amended? (A) <26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) >27: accounting for constitutional change / Sanford Levinson -- Constitutionalism in the United States: from theory to politics / Stephen M. Griffin -- Higher lawmaking / Bruce Ackerman -- Popular sovereignty and constitutional amendment / Akhil Reed Amar -- The plain meaning of Article V / David R. Dow -- Amending the presuppositions of a constitution / Frederick Schauer -- Merlin's memory: the past and future imperfect of the once and future polity / Walter F. Murphy -- The case against implicit limits on the constitutional amending process / John R. Vile -- The "original" Thirteenth Amendment and the limits to formal constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon -- Toward a theory of constitutional amendment / Donald S. Lutz -- The politics of constitutional revision in Eastern Europe / Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein -- Midrash: amendment through the molding of meaning / Noam J. Zohar |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 330 S. |
| ISBN: | 0691086575 0-691-08657-5 0691025703 0-691-02570-3 9780691025704 978-0-691-02570-4 |