Constitutional Culture and Democratic RuleJohn A. Ferejohn, Jack N. Rakove, Jonathan Riley This volume investigates the nature of constitutional democratic government in the United States and elsewhere. The editors introduce a basic conceptual framework which the contributors clarify and develop in eleven essays organized into three separate sections. The first section deals with constitutional founding and the founders' use of cultural symbols and traditions to facilitate acceptance of a new regime. The second discusses alternative constitutional structures and their effects on political outcomes. The third focuses on processes of constitutional change and on why founders might choose to make formal amendments relatively difficult or easy to achieve. The book is distinctive because it provides comprehensive tools for analyzing and comparing different forms of constitutional democracy. These tools are discussed in ways that will be of interest to students and readers in political science, law, history and political philosophy. |
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... proposal by the federal convention in Philadelphia was one reason why Madison initially believed that the Constitution would " neither effec- tually answer its national object nor prevent the local mischiefs which every where excite ...
... proposal by the federal convention in Philadelphia was one reason why Madison initially believed that the Constitution would " neither effec- tually answer its national object nor prevent the local mischiefs which every where excite ...
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... proposed laws on the func- tioning of our political system and public life . The backward - looking element is sometimes considered the province of justification and legality , whereas the forward - looking aspect is seen as the domain ...
... proposed laws on the func- tioning of our political system and public life . The backward - looking element is sometimes considered the province of justification and legality , whereas the forward - looking aspect is seen as the domain ...
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... propose the following defining idea . A constitution is defined as the set of formal procedures for establishing governmental agencies , specifying their limited jurisdictions , establishing how these agencies may take authorita- tive ...
... propose the following defining idea . A constitution is defined as the set of formal procedures for establishing governmental agencies , specifying their limited jurisdictions , establishing how these agencies may take authorita- tive ...
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... proposed by officials themselves to a relatively uninformed public , the pessimistic view recommends construing the whole document against the " adventurer , " understood as the party who offered the contractual terms . Just as in ...
... proposed by officials themselves to a relatively uninformed public , the pessimistic view recommends construing the whole document against the " adventurer , " understood as the party who offered the contractual terms . Just as in ...
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... proposed Constitution might prove far more problematic than the public language of The Federalist might suggest . For the purposes of this book , this account of Madison's political thinking has several sig- nificant implications ...
... proposed Constitution might prove far more problematic than the public language of The Federalist might suggest . For the purposes of this book , this account of Madison's political thinking has several sig- nificant implications ...
Contents
Constitutional Problematics circa 1787 | 41 |
Inventing Constitutional Traditions The Poverty of Fatalism | 71 |
The Birth Logic of a Democratic Constitution | 110 |
CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND DESIGN | 145 |
Constitutional Democracy as a TwoStage Game | 147 |
Imagining Another Madisonian Republic | 170 |
One and Three Separation of Powers and the Independence of the Judiciary in the Italian Constitution | 205 |
A Political Theory of Federalism | 223 |
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND STABILITY | 269 |
Designing an Amendment Process | 271 |
Constitutional Theory Transformed | 288 |
Constitutional Economic Transition | 328 |
Institutionalizing Constitutional Interpretation | 361 |
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