Levinson Responding to Imperfection

The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2163-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Levinson, Sanford

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Imperfection and Amendability 3

2 How Many Times Has the United States Constitution Been Amended? (A) 27: Accounting for Constitutional Change 13

3 Constitutionalism in the United States: From Theory to Politics 37

4 Higher Lawmaking 63

5 Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Amendment 89

6 The Plain Meaning of Article V 117

7 Amending the Presuppositions of a Constitution 145

8 Merlin's Memory: The Past and Future Imperfect of the Once and Future Polity 163

9 The Case against Implicit Limits on the Constitutional Amending Process 191

10 The "Original" Thirteenth Amendment and the Limits to Formal Constitutional Change 215

11 Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment 237

12 The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Eastern Europe 275

13 Midrash: Amendment through the Molding of Meaning 307

Appendix: Amending Provisions of Selected New Constitutions in Eastern Europe 319

Contributors 325

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Sanford Levinson holds the St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr., Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government there. He is also the author of Constitutional Faith (Princeton).