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Constitutional revolutions : pragmatism and the role of judicial review in American constitutionalism /
Rethinks constitutional jurisprudence from a postmodern perspective, attempting to integrate a Kuhnian approach to intellectual transformations with a Rawlsian pragmatic approach to decision making.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | E-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The crisis of American constitutionalism
- 1. Constitutionalism and dualist politics
- 2. Dworkin's constitutional coherentism
- 3. the theory of constitutional revolutions
- 4. The historical defense of the theory
- 5. The conceptual and political defenses of the theory.
- Introduction: The Crisis of American Constitutionalism
- 1. Constitutionalism and Dualist Politics. Ackerman's Dualism and Postmodern Pragmatism
- 2. Dworkin's Constitutional Coherentism. Law as Integrity and Constitutional Revolutions. Two Conceptions of the Relationship between Fit and Justification. Pragmatism and Law as Integrity. Right Answers in Hard Cases
- 3. The Theory of Constitutional Revolutions. The Proper Role of Dualism in Constitutional Jurisprudence. Constitutional Paradigms. The Theory of Constitutional Revolutions. Background Theories of Constitutional Change. The Theory of Judicial Reasoning
- 4. The Historical Defense of the Theory. The Countermajoritarian Question and the History of Revolutionary Adjudication. The formative revolutions. Contemporary revolutions
- 5. The conceptual and political defenses of the theory. The conceptual defense. The political defense.