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Responding to imperfection : the theory and practice of constitutional amendment

Author: Sanford Levinson
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sanford Levinson
ISBN: 0691086575 9780691086576 0691025703 9780691025704
OCLC Number: 30734198
Description: viii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: imperfection and amendability / Sanford Levinson --
How many times has the United States Constitution been amended? (A) <26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D)>27: accounting for constitutional change / Sanford Levinson --
Constitutionalism in the United States: from theory to politics / Stephen M. Griffin --
Higher lawmaking / Bruce Ackerman --
Popular sovereignty and constitutional amendment / Akhil Reed Amar --
The plain meaning of Article V / David R. Dow --
Amending the presuppositions of a constitution / Frederick Schauer --
Merlin's memory: the past and future imperfect of the once and future polity / Walter F. Murphy --
The case against implicit limits on the constitutional amending process / John R. Vile --
The "original" Thirteenth Amendment and the limits to formal constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon --
Toward a theory of constitutional amendment / Donald S. Lutz --
The politics of constitutional revision in Eastern Europe / Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein --
Midrash: amendment through the molding of meaning / Noam J. Zohar.
Responsibility: Sanford Levinson, editor.
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