The Constitution As Political Structure

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Oxford University Press, 1995 M01 5 - 240 páginas
Over the last forty years modern constitutional scholarship has concentrated on an analysis of rights, while principles of constitutional law concerning the structure of government have been largely downplayed. The irony of this interpretive emphasis is that the body of the Constitution contains relatively little dealing directly with rights. Rather, it is primarily a blueprint for the establishment of a complex form of federal-democratic structure. This work emphasizes the central role served by the structural portions of the Constitution. Redish argues that these structural values were designed to provide the framework in which our rights-based system may flourish, and that judicial abandonment of these structural values threatens the very foundations of American political theory.
 

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Political Structure Democratic Theory and Constitutional Text
3
2 Federalism the Constitution and American Political Theory
23
3 The Dormant Commerce Clause and the Constitutional Balance of Federalism
63
4 Pragmatic Formalism and Separation of Powers
99
5 Legislative Delegation Pragmatic Formalism and the Values of Democracy
135
Liberalism Constitutional Theory and Political Structure
163
Notes
167
Table of Cases
223
Index
227
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