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Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies.
The Constitution is the cornerstone of American government, hailed as one of the greatest contributions of the Western Enlightenment. While many seem content simply to celebrate it, those most familiar with the document invariably find it wanting in at least some aspects. This unique volume brings t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York :
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1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Constitutional Conversations; PART I Constitutional Stupidities; CHAPTER 1 A Constitutional Accident Waiting to Happen; CHAPTER 2 Parlor Games; CHAPTER 3 An Agenda for Constitutional Reform; CHAPTER 4 "Clause and Effect": An Imagined Conversation with Sanford Levinson; CHAPTER 5 The One Senator, One Vote Clauses; CHAPTER 6 Our (Almost) Perfect Constitution; CHAPTER 7 Unnecessary and Unintelligible; CHAPTER 8 The Nominee Is ... Article V; CHAPTER 9 A Natural Aristocracy?; CHAPTER 10 "Neither Force nor Will." | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER 11 Presidential Elections and Constitutional StupiditiesCHAPTER 12 The Presidential Age Requirement and Public Policy Agenda Setting; CHAPTER 13 The Last Centrifugal Force; CHAPTER 14 Someone Should Have Told Spiro Agnew; CHAPTER 15 Old People and Good Behavior; CHAPTER 16 Divided Suffrage; CHAPTER 17 The Constitution of Fear; CHAPTER 18 Criminal Procedure as the Servant of Politics; CHAPTER 19 Our Unconstitutional Senate; CHAPTER 20 How to Violate the Constitution without Really Trying: Lessons from the Repeal of Prohibition to the Balanced Budget Amendment. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER 21 The Whole ThingCHAPTER 22 How Stupid Can a Coasean Constitution Be?; PART II Constitutional Tragedies; CHAPTER 23 Constitutional Tragedies and Giving Refuge to the Devil; CHAPTER 24 The Meaning of Constitutional Tragedy; CHAPTER 25 The Tragic Case of Capital Punishment; CHAPTER 26 Constitutional Tragedies: The Dark Side of Judgment; CHAPTER 27 Good Constitutions and Bad Choices; CHAPTER 28 Jocasta Undone: Constitutional Courts in the Midst of Life and Death; CHAPTER 29 Constitutional Tragedy in Dying: Or Whose Tragedy Is It, Anyway?; CHAPTER 30 Dramatic Jurisprudence. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER 31 Constitutional FarceCHAPTER 32 Constitutional Merry-Go-Round: The First Time Tragedy, the Second Time Farce; CHAPTER 33 Glamis, Yes; Cawdor, Yes--but King of Scotland?; CHAPTER 34 Brown v. Board of Education; CHAPTER 35 Tragedy and Constitutional Interpretation: The California Civil Rights Initiative; CHAPTER 36 The Meaning of Blacks' Fidelity to the Constitution; CHAPTER 37 Tragedies under the Common Law Constitution; CHAPTER 38 McCulloch v. Maryland; CHAPTER 39 Antigone and Creon; APPENDIX: The Constitution of the United States; About the Contributors; Index. | |
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