Constitutional politics : essays on constitution making, maintenance, and change
Explores questions ranging from the nature of creating the US Constitution to the philosophy behind amending it. This collection brings together 14 essays that consider the meaning of having a constitution, the implications of choices in the design of constitutions, and the meaning of judicial supremacy in the interpretation of the Constitution.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2001
337 pages ; 24 cm
9780691088686, 9780691088693, 0691088683, 0691088691
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Alternative political systems / Walter F. Murphy
The civic constitution: some preliminaries / John E. Finn
Judicial supremacy and constitutional distortion / Christopher L. Eisgruber
We the exceptional American people / James E. Fleming
Constitution and revolution / Jeffrey K. Tullis
What did they think they were doing when they wrote the U.S. Constitution, and why should we care? / Suzette Hemberger
Notes on constitutional maintenance / Sotirios A. Barber
Transformative constitutionalism and the case of religion: defending the moderate hegemony of liberalism / Stephen Macedo
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?) / Sanford Levinson
Second thoughts on the First Amendment / H.N. Hirsch
Constitutional citizenship / Wayne D. Moore
The political foundations of judicial supremacy / Keith E. Whittington
Constitutionalism and constitutional failure / Mark E. Brandon
Justice, legitimacy, and allegiance: "the end of democracy?" symposium revisited / Robert P. George