Responding to Imperfection : : The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment /

Responding to Imperfection : : The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment / / ed. by Sanford Levinson.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Ackerman, Bruce,
Brandon, Mark E.,
Dow, David R.,
Griffin, Stephen M.,
Holmes, Stephen,
Levinson, Sanford,
Lutz, Donald S.,
Murphy, Walter F.,
Reed Amar, Akhil,
Schauer, Frederick,
Sunstein, Cass R.,
Vile, John R.,
Zohar, Noam J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Levinson, Sanford,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 16 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Introduction: Imperfection and Amendability
  • Two. How Many Times Has the United States Constitution Been Amended? (A) < 26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) > 27: Accounting for Constitutional Change
  • Three. Constitutionalism in the United States: From Theory to Politics
  • Four. Higher Lawmaking
  • Five. Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Amendment
  • Six. The Plain Meaning of Article V
  • Seven. Amending the Presuppositions of a Constitution
  • Eight. Merlin's Memory: The Past and Future Imperfect of the Once and Future Polity
  • Nine. The Case against Implicit Limits on the Constitutional Amending Process
  • Ten. The "Original" Thirteenth Amendment and the Limits to Formal Constitutional Change
  • Eleven. Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment
  • Twelve. The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Eastern Europe
  • Thirteen. Midrash: Amendment through the Molding of Meaning
  • Appendix: Amending Provisions of Selected New Constitutions in Eastern Europe
  • Contributors
  • Index

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