Responding to Imperfection (eBook)

The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment

Sanford Levinson (Herausgeber)

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1995
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2163-1 (ISBN)

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Sanford Levinson holds the St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr., Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government there. He is also the author of Constitutional Faith (Princeton).

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An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well. The contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Mark E. Brandon, David R. Dow, Stephen M. Griffin, Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, Sanford Levinson, Donald Lutz, Walter Murphy, Frederick Schauer, John R. Vile, and Noam J. Zohar.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.1995
• Zusatzinfo: 16 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Amendment • americans • Anti-Federalism • Article Four of the United States Constitution • Articles of Confederation • Article Three of the United States Constitution • bicameralism • Bill of rights • Bruce Ackerman • Clinton Rossiter • Common Law • Consideration • Constitution • constitutional amendment • constitutional crisis • Constitutionalism • Constitutionalist (UK) • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Constitutional theory • Criticism • Deliberation • Dred Scott v. Sandford • Eastern Europe • Electoral College (United States) • Equal Protection Clause • Equal Rights Amendment • Federal Constitutional Court • Federal government of the United States • Federal Republic • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • freedom of speech • Fundamental Rights • Governance • Government • Harvard University Press • Institution • Judicial Activism • Judicial interpretation • Judiciary • Jurisprudence • Lawmaking • Law of the United States • Law Review • Legislation • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Majoritarianism • majority rule • Marbury v. Madison • McCulloch v. Maryland • Midrash • Multitude • nation state • Natural and legal rights • Originalism • Oxford University Press • parliamentary system • Perpetual Union • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political System • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Preamble • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Provision (contracting) • ratification • Referendum • Regime • Republic • Republicanism • Requirement • rights • Ronald Dworkin • Rule of Law • Rule of Recognition • Sanford Levinson • Slavery • Sovereignty • State constitution (United States) • State Government • Statute • Suffrage • supermajority • supreme court of the united states • Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • The Federalist Papers • The Other Hand • Treaty • United States constitution • University of Chicago Law Review • Veto • Voting • Writing • Yale Law Journal • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2163-0 / 1400821630
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2163-1 / 9781400821631