Constitutional politics : essays on constitution making, maintenance, and change /

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What does it mean to have a constitution? Scholars and students associated with Walter Murphy at Princeton University have long asked this question in their exploration of constitutional politics and judicial behavior. These scholars, concerned with the making, maintenance, and deliberate change of...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Barber, Sotirios A. (Editor), George, Robert P. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Constitutional history > United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
Constitutional history
Politics and government
Verfassung
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Droit constitutionnel > Etats-Unis.
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
USA
États-Unis > Histoire constitutionnelle.
Affiliated Presidents: and judicial review.
Aristotle: on constitutional maintenance.
Articles of Confederation: defects of.
Bowers v. Hardwick.
Brown v. Board of Education.
Cardozo, Benjamin: on meaning of due process.
City of Boerne v. Flores.
Civic Constitution.
Coercive Capitalism.
Consociationalism.
Constitutional Democracy.
Corfield v. Coryell.
Diversity: benefits of.
Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Engel v. Vitale.
Everson v. New Jersey.
Griswold v. Connecticut.
Hughes, Robert: on multiculturalism.
John Paul II: on death penalty.
Judicial Review: and abortion.
Juridic Constitution.
Lawfulness: as constitutional virtue.
Liberal Neutrality: critics of.
Marbury v. Madison.
Meyer v. Nebraska.
Natural Law: and constitutional restraint.
New Deal: and the American Founding.
Nixon, Richard: and the Supreme Court.
Pierce v. Society of Sisters.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
Poe v. Ullman.
Privacy, right to: source of.
Public Schools: prayer in.
Rochin v. California.
Roe v. Wade.
Shapiro v. Thompson.
Shay's Rebellion.
Unconstitutional Condition.
United States v. Lopez.
Wallace v. Jaffree.
Wisconsin v. Yoder.
Yudof, Mark: on Pierce v. Society of Sisters.
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Table of Contents:
  • Alternative political systems / Walter F. Murphy
  • The civic constitution: some preliminaries / John E. Finn
  • Judicial supremacy and constitutional distortion / Christopher L. Eisgruber
  • We the exceptional American people / James E. Fleming
  • Constitution and revolution / Jeffrey K. Tullis
  • What did they think they were doing when they wrote the U.S. Constitution, and why should we care? / Suzette Hemberger
  • Notes on constitutional maintenance / Sotirios A. Barber
  • Transformative constitutionalism and the case of religion: defending the moderate hegemony of liberalism / Stephen Macedo
  • Promoting diversity in the public schools (or, to what extent does the establishment clause of the First Amendment hinder the establishment of more genuinely multicultural schools?) / Sanford Levinson
  • Second thoughts on the First Amendment / H.N. Hirsch
  • Constitutional citizenship / Wayne D. Moore
  • The political foundations of judicial supremacy / Keith E. Whittington
  • Constitutionalism and constitutional failure / Mark E. Brandon
  • Justice, legitimacy, and allegiance: "the end of democracy?" symposium revisited / Robert P. George.

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