Justice in plainclothes : a theory of American constitutional practice /

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In this important book, Lawrence Sager, a leading constitutional theorist, offers a lucid understanding and compelling defence of American constitutional practice. Sager treats judges as active partners in the enterprise of securing the fundamentals of political justice, and sees the process of cons...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sager, Lawrence G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University, ©2004.
Temas:
Constitutional law > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Judicial process > United States.
Droit constitutionnel > États-Unis.
Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > États-Unis.
Processus judiciaire > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Constitutional law
Judicial process
Political questions and judicial power
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The puzzle of our constitutional practice
  • 1. Accounts of our constitutional practice
  • 2. Judges as agents of the past: the burdens of originalism
  • 3. Enactment-centered history as an originalist supplementation of the text
  • 4. Three rescue attempts: lean, middling, and thick
  • 5. Enter partnership: the justice-seeking account of our constitutional practice
  • 6. The thinness of constitutional law and the underenforcement thesis
  • 7. The conceptual salience of underenforcement
  • 8. The domain of constitutional justice
  • 9. The birth logic of a democratic constitution
  • 10. Democracy and the justice-seeking constitution.

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