Constitutional Politics : : Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change / / ed. by Robert P. George, Sotirios A. Barber.

What does it mean to have a constitution? Scholars and students associated with Walter Murphy at Princeton University have long asked this question in their exploration of constitutional politics and judicial behavior. These scholars, concerned with the making, maintenance, and deliberate change of...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Alternative Political Systems
  • 2 The Civic Constitution: Some Preliminaries
  • 3 Judicial Supremacy and Constitutional Distortion
  • 4 We the Exceptional American People
  • 5 Constitution and Revolution
  • 6 What Did They Think They Were Doing When They Wrote the U.S. Constitution, and Why Should We Care?
  • 7 Notes on Constitutional Maintenance
  • 8 Transformative Constitutionalism and the Case of Religion: Defending the Moderate Hegemony of Liberalism
  • 9 Promoting Diversity in the Public Schools (Or, To What Extent Does the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment Hinder the Establishment of More Genuinely Multicultural Schools?)
  • 10 Second Thoughts on the First Amendment
  • 11 Constitutional Citizenship
  • 12 The Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy
  • 13 Constitutionalism and Constitutional Failure
  • 14 Justice, Legitimacy, and Allegiance: "The End of Democracy?" Symposium Revisited
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index