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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... claims divine inspiration to do so. How can one declare that God's own artifacts are nevertheless flawed and in potential need of the particular kind of change we call “amendment”? Although Zohar obviously concentrates on only one ...
... claim, based on the Torah's divine origins, that the revealed word contains within it so much depth, such profound eternal values, that every new situation at every point in history can be dealt with . . . appropriately . . . on the ...
... claim about the likely views of the text's authors as to its “necessity.” But it seems quite clear that even supporters of several of the textual additions believed that they in fact added nothing to the meaning of the Constitution, if ...
... Claims that the U.S. Constitution is a magnificent document that “embodies the American spirit, the American Dream,”4 are not really open to rational debate. They are expressions of quasi-religious faith and patriotic sentiment and are ...
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Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson Predogled ni na voljo - 1995 |