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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The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson. Acknowledgments. I AM GRATEFUL to various program chairs of the American Political Science Association, who allowed me to organize panels over a four-year period that ...
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson. One. Introduction: Imperfection. and. Amendability. SANFORD LEVINSON ONJUNE 11, 1787, George Mason of Virginia opened the discussion of constitutional amendment at the ...
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson. of Carolinas, that “these fundamental constitutions shall be and remain the sacred and unalterable form and rule of government . . . forever.”3 It was a fundamental ...
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson. Only the initial third through twelfth amendments were ratified by 1791, and they, of course, are now known as the Bill of Rights. Nonetheless, states sporadically ...
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment Sanford Levinson. basically procedural questions raised by recourse to the Article as a mode of constitutional amendment. Instead, the focus of this volume involves somewhat different ...
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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 |