What should constitutions do? /

""In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," James Madison wrote, "the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."1 The task of a constitution is t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paul, Ellen Frankel, Miller, Fred D., Jr., 1944-, Paul, Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Social Philosophy and Policy.
Temas:
Constitutional law > Philosophy.
Political science.
Droit constitutionnel > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Constitutions.
Constitutional law > Philosophy
Political science
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What are constitutions, and what should (and can) they do? / Larry Alexander
  • Constitution and fundamental law : the lesson of classical Athens / John David Lewis
  • Contract, covenant, constitution / Loren E. Lomasky
  • Constitutionalism in the age of terror / Michael Zuckert and Felix Valenzuela
  • The liberal constitution and foreign affairs / Fernando R. Tesón
  • Do constitutions have a point? reflections on "parchment barriers" and preambles / Sanford Levinson
  • The origins of an independent judiciary in New York, 1621-1777 / Scott D. Gerber
  • Foot voting, political ignorance, and constitutional design / Ilya Somin
  • Pluralist constitutionalism / William A. Glaston
  • Deliberative democracy and constitutions / James S. Fishkin
  • The constitution of nondomination / Guido Pincione
  • Can we design an optimal constitution? of structural ambiguity and rights clarity / Richard A. Epstein.

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