Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... legislation . How could that happen ? Well , special interests get their pet projects enacted as state constitutional amendments because then they are more difficult to undo than repealing ordinary legislation . Constitutionalism in ...
... legislation . How could that happen ? Well , special interests get their pet projects enacted as state constitutional amendments because then they are more difficult to undo than repealing ordinary legislation . Constitutionalism in ...
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... legislation relative to changing the Constitution or its personnel . 915 This propensity to conflate the Court and the Constitution is hardly limited to grass roots America . It seems to have been shared by a great many scholars because ...
... legislation relative to changing the Constitution or its personnel . 915 This propensity to conflate the Court and the Constitution is hardly limited to grass roots America . It seems to have been shared by a great many scholars because ...
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... legislative council or senate appeared first in George Mason's draft of a constitution for Virginia ; was shortly af- terward adopted in Maryland upon the proposal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton . . . was later presented to the New ...
... legislative council or senate appeared first in George Mason's draft of a constitution for Virginia ; was shortly af- terward adopted in Maryland upon the proposal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton . . . was later presented to the New ...
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... legislative statutes , organic theory proved exceedingly useful . During the 1930s , however , it became equally at- tractive to New Dealers who applied the evolutionary aspect of organic theory to reinforce their plea for adapting the ...
... legislative statutes , organic theory proved exceedingly useful . During the 1930s , however , it became equally at- tractive to New Dealers who applied the evolutionary aspect of organic theory to reinforce their plea for adapting the ...
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... legislative or executive branches of the government . " Anthony Lewis , on the other hand , has de- clared that " in the Executive and in Congress the process of decision is at least partly , often substantially , open to view . . . . I ...
... legislative or executive branches of the government . " Anthony Lewis , on the other hand , has de- clared that " in the Executive and in Congress the process of decision is at least partly , often substantially , open to view . . . . I ...
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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