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Our undemocratic constitution : where the constitution goes wrong (and how we the people can correct it) /
Prelude: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. Introduction: A Tale of Two Signings. 1. The Ratification Referendum: Sending the Constitution to a New Convention for Repair. 2. Our Undemocratic Legislative Process. 3. The Legacy of Article II: Too-Powerful Presidents, Chosen in an Indefensible Process, Wh...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Prelude: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. Introduction: A Tale of Two Signings. 1. The Ratification Referendum: Sending the Constitution to a New Convention for Repair. 2. Our Undemocratic Legislative Process. 3. The Legacy of Article II: Too-Powerful Presidents, Chosen in an Indefensible Process, Who Cannot Be Displaced Even When They Are Manifestly Incompetent. 4. Life Tenure for Supreme Court Justices: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed. 5. The Constitution as Creator of Second-Class Citizens. 6. The Impermeable Article V. 7. Disenchantment and Desire: What Is to Be Done?. Coda: The Wisdom of Woo. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195345612 0195345614 1280564458 9781280564451 9780199885718 0199885710 |