Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional AmendmentSanford Levinson Princeton University Press, 24. jan. 1995 - 344 strani 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. |
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... Bushrod Washington, November 10, 1787, in Michael Kammen, ed., The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 83. 3 The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolinas § 120, in Benjamin.
... York: Oxford Univerity Press, 1988), p. 14. 4 See Willi Paul Adams, The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina ...
... York: Free Press, 1990), p. 143. Bork testified as follows to the Senate: Passing that historical evidence, which I think casts some doubt on the flat assumption that the 14th amendment really meant separate but equal, let me say this ...
... York: Peter Lang Pub., 1990), p. 163. 8 See Philip Bobbitt, Constitutional Fate (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), and Constitutional Interpretation (Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991), for elucidations 15 ACCOUNTING FOR ...
... York: Richardson, Steirman & Black, 1988), p. 81. 12 John Tagliabue, “A Threat to Kohl,” New York Times, 16 SANFORD LEVINSON.
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Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson Predogled ni na voljo - 1995 |
Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson Predogled ni na voljo - 1995 |