A Principled Constitution?

Four Skeptical Views

Steven D. Smith, Larry Alexander, James Allan, Maimon Schwarzschild (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

122 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1149-7 (ISBN)

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In this book, four authors reflect on whether the US Constitution embodies certain "principles." They conclude that it does not, at least not directly, and that it's a good thing that it and other constitutions do not.

Is the United States Constitution the embodiment of certain principles? The four authors of this book for a variety of reasons, and with somewhat different emphases, believe the answer is no. Those who authored the Constitution no doubt all believed in liberty, equality, and, with caveats, republican self-government values, or if you will, principles. But they had different conceptions of those principles and what those principles entailed for constituting a government. Although the Constitution they created reflected, in some sense, their principles, the Constitution itself was a specific list of do’s and don’ts that its creators hoped would gain the allegiance of the newly independent and sovereign states. And, for somewhat different reasons, the authors of this book believe that was a good thing.

Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of law at the University of San Diego. Larry Alexander is Warren Distinguished Professor of law at the University of San Diego. James Allan is Garrick Professor of law at the University of Queensland. Maimon Schwarzschild is professor of law at the University of San Diego.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Unpretentious Beginnings: The Merely Legal Constitution
Steven D. Smith
Chapter 2: The Not-Your-Ancestors’, Principle-Plush Constitution
Steven D. Smith
Chapter 3: So You Think You Want a Constitution of Principles
Larry Alexander
Chapter 4: Mushy Constitutional Principles Enabling Puffed-Up Judicial Policymaking: I’m Against, on Principle
James Allan
Chapter 5: The Power—and Peril—of Principle
Maimon Schwarzschild
Bibliography
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 228 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-6669-1149-6 / 1666911496
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1149-7 / 9781666911497
Zustand	Neuware