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Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought /

The Missouri legislature passes a bill to flout federal gun-control laws it deems unconstitutional. Texas refuses to recognize same-sex marriages, citing the state's sovereignty. The Tenth Amendment Center promotes the "Federal Health Care Nullification Act." In these and many other s...

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Otros Autores: Levinson, Sanford, 1941- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Introduction : Zombie (or Dinosaur) constitutionalism? The revival of nullification and secession
  • The 21st century rediscovery of nullification and secession in American political rhetoric : frivolousness incarnate, or serious arguments to be wrestled with? / Sanford Levinson
  • How to maintain a constitution : the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions and James Madison's struggle with the problem of constitutional maintenance / Jonathan Gienapp
  • Living, dead, and undead : nullification past and present / James H. Read and Neal Allen
  • Marijuana, nullification, and the checks and balances model of federalism / Ernest A. Young
  • Almost legal : disobedience and partial nullification in American constitutional politics and law / Mark A. Graber
  • To kill and die for the constitution : nullification and insurrectionary violence / Jared A. Goldstein
  • Political facts, legal fictions / Mark R. Killenbeck
  • Nullification : three comparative notes / Ran Hirschl
  • Continuity in secession : the case of the Confederate Constitution / Alison L. LaCroix
  • The logic and design of a low-commitment constitution (or, how to stop worrying about the right to secede) / Zachary Elkins
  • Secession, transnational precedents, and constitutional silences / Vicki C. Jackson
  • Secession as a problem in negotiation / Mark Tushnet.