Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... reviews see Journal of American History , 86 ( Dec. 1999 ) , 1375-76 and American Historical Review , 104 ( June 1999 ) , 933-34 . " The Codes of New York and Codification in General : Address to the law - students of Buffalo , February ...
... reviews see Journal of American History , 86 ( Dec. 1999 ) , 1375-76 and American Historical Review , 104 ( June 1999 ) , 933-34 . " The Codes of New York and Codification in General : Address to the law - students of Buffalo , February ...
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... Review , an annual founded in 1961 that is equally concerned with legal history , public policy , and constitutional law ) . In 1968 , G. R. Elton's inaugural lecture as Professor of English Constitutional History in the University of ...
... Review , an annual founded in 1961 that is equally concerned with legal history , public policy , and constitutional law ) . In 1968 , G. R. Elton's inaugural lecture as Professor of English Constitutional History in the University of ...
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... review ) will adhere to an op- posite position . The historical record , however , is more complicated than that . First , intermittent attacks upon the Supreme Court have been an in- tegral part of constitutionalism in American culture ...
... review ) will adhere to an op- posite position . The historical record , however , is more complicated than that . First , intermittent attacks upon the Supreme Court have been an in- tegral part of constitutionalism in American culture ...
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... review , or proposals for congressional review of Court decisions regarding controversial ques- tions have customarily been referred to the judiciary committee and never reported out . 23 Three other sections of the submerged part of ...
... review , or proposals for congressional review of Court decisions regarding controversial ques- tions have customarily been referred to the judiciary committee and never reported out . 23 Three other sections of the submerged part of ...
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... review — yet another major development about which there has been no consensus . Indeed , here is one of our most curious constitutional dualisms . The process of judicial review has often been puffed as the most distinctive American ...
... review — yet another major development about which there has been no consensus . Indeed , here is one of our most curious constitutional dualisms . The process of judicial review has often been puffed as the most distinctive American ...
Contents
2 | 43 |
PART | 125 |
The American and the British Constitution | 156 |
The Crisis in Constitutionalism | 185 |
God Knows How Dearly We Need | 219 |
Decisions Are Politics When Constitutional | 255 |
My God Making a Racket out | 282 |
PART FOUR | 313 |
The Public Got Strange and Distorted | 357 |
Its What Holds Us All Together | 381 |
Appendix A A Note on the Sources | 403 |
Abbreviations | 411 |
95 | 417 |
156 | 429 |
Index | 509 |
Our Bill of Rights Is Under | 336 |
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