ISBN:
0691086575
,
0691025703
,
9780691025704
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 330 S.
Series Statement:
Princeton paperbacks
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Levinson, Sanford, 1941 - Responding to Imperfection
DDC:
342.03
Keywords:
Constitutional amendments United States
;
Constitutional amendments
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Verfassungsänderung
;
USA Verfassung Amendment 1787
;
USA
;
Verfassungsrecht
;
Rechtsfortbildung
;
USA Verfassung Amendment 1787
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
