The Limits of Constitutional Democracy /

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Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise-and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What is constitution...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Macedo, Stephen, 1957-, Tulis, Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Democracy.
Constitutional law.
Constitutional history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
Constitutional law > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Democracy > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Constitutional failure : ultimately attitudinal / Sotiros A. Barber
  • Successful failures of the American constitution / James E. Fleming
  • The disharmonic constitution / Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
  • Constitution of failure : the architectonics of a well-founded constitutional order / William F. Harris II
  • "In the name of national security" : executive discretion and congressional legislation in the Civil War and World War I / Benjamin A. Kleinerman
  • The possibility of constitutional statesmanship / Jeffrey K. Tulis
  • Exceptions that prove the rule : embedding emergency government into everyday constitutional life / Kim Lane Schepple
  • The glorious commander in chief / Adrian Vermeule
  • The relational conception of war powers / Mariah Zeisberg
  • Confronting war : rethinking Jackson's concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer / Joseph M. Bessette
  • War and constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon
  • Three constitutionalist responses to globalization / Jan-Werner Müller
  • Constitutionalism in a theocratic world / Ran Hirschl
  • Constitutional democracies, coercion, and obligations to include / Rogers M. Smith
  • Omniviolence, arms control, and limited government / Daniel Deudney
  • Conclusion: Constitutional engagement and its limits / Christopher L. Eisgruber.

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