Legitimacy and History : Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory /
This powerfully conceptualized book is both a rich intellectual history of two hundred years of American constitutional theory and an original philosophical inquiry into the possibility of self-government. Legitimate government in the United States means self-government. Yet Americans also believe t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION Constitutional History as Discourse
- CHAPTER ONE To Make a Constitution
- CHAPTER TWO Maintenance and the Organism of the State
- CHAPTER THREE The Evolving Unwritten Constitution
- CHAPTER FOUR The Forum of Science in the Constitutional Order
- CHAPTER FIVE The Locus of Will in Modern Constitutional Theory I
- CHAPTER SIX Community in Contemporary Constitutional Theory
- CONCLUSION The End of Constitutional Theory
- Notes
- Index