Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional AmendmentSanford Levinson 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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... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Responding to imperfection : the theory and practice of constitutional amendment / Sanford Levinson, editor. p. cm. Includes index. eISBN 1-4008-0489-2 1. United States—Constitutional law ...
... Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing ...
... Congress? (To name only two candidates.) 5. What if the states do in fact coordinately call for a new constitutional convention? Could its agenda be limited to any given topics mentioned by the states, or would the convention have ...
... are additional amendments beyond these numbered textual additions—consider, for example, “Congress may pass any regulation it believes conducive to the national health, safety, or welfare so long as the conduct 7 INTRODUCTION.
... Congress can reasonably believe contributes to the facilitation of a smoothly flowing and flourishing national economy); or “the President may declare limited war on relatively insignificant foreign countries without formally consulting ...
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Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson No preview available - 1995 |
Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson No preview available - 1995 |