Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional AmendmentSanford Levinson Princeton University Press, 1995 M01 24 - 344 páginas An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well. |
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... American Political Science Association, who allowed me to organize panels over a four-year period that explored various aspects of the issues surrounding constitutional change and the notion of “amendment.” Several of the papers in this ...
... to Bushrod Washington, November 10, 1787, in Michael Kammen, ed., The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 83. 3 The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolinas § 120, in Benjamin.
... American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980), pp. 139–44. 5 Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic ...
... American constitutional system? As a descriptive matter, can one possibly understand the changes that have undoubtedly occurred within that system by reference only to the mechanisms of Article V? This last question is answered with a ...
... American constitutional system? It was the very possibility that Article V was reducible to only its procedural requirements that apparently led the famous mathematical logician Kurt Gödel to refuse to become a citizen of the United ...
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