Amending America S Unwritten Constitution

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Author by Richard Albert
Genre : Law
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9781009246828
Type : PDF & Epub
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It is well known that the US Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times since its creation in 1787, but that number does not reflect the true extent of constitutional change in America. Although the Constitution is globally recognized as a written text, it consists also of unwritten rules and principles that are just as important, such as precedents, customs, traditions, norms, presuppositions, and more. These, too, have been amended, but how does that process work? In this book, leading scholars of law, history, philosophy, and political science consider the many theoretical, conceptual, and practical dimensions of what it means to amend America's 'unwritten Constitution': how to change the rules, who may legitimately do it, why leaders may find it politically expedient to enact written instead of unwritten amendments, and whether anything is lost by changing the constitution without a codified constitutional amendment.

America S Forgotten Constitutions

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Author by Robert L. Tsai
Genre : History
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN : 9780674059955
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 367 Page
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Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists.

The U S Constitution And The Supreme Court

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Author by Steven Anzovin
Genre : Constitutional law
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
ISBN : UOM:39015013368686
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 260 Page
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A compilation of seventeen previously published articles on the topic of the Constitution and its relationship with the Supreme Court.

The Constitution Of The United States Of America

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Author by Mark Tushnet
Genre : Law
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN : 9781509901760
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 304 Page
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This is the second edition of Professor Tushnet's short critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States' Constitution. It is organised around wo themes: first, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. Second, the Constitution creates a structure of political opportunities that allows political actors, icluding political parties, to pursue the preferred policy goals even to the point of altering the very structure of politics. Deploying these themes to examine the structure f the national government, federalism, judicial review, and individual rights, the book provides basic information about, and deeper insights into, the way he US constitutional system has developed and what it means today.

Who Wrote The U S Constitution

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Author by Candice Ransom
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN : 076136319X
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 48 Page
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In May 1787, men from all over the United States arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on serious business. Just eleven years earlier, colonial leaders had met in Philadelphia to declare their independence from Great Britain. But now the young country was in trouble. The U.S. government was weak, and its guiding document—the Articles of Confederation—was failing. Throughout the summer of 1787, state representatives and leaders argued, shouted, and wrote and rewrote articles. By September, they had produced a new document, the U.S. Constitution. The Convention became a turning point in American history. But what were the new country’s problems? Who came up with the solutions? How did the states work out disagreements to create a new system of government? Discover the facts about the 1787 Convention and the writing of the Constitution.

America S Authors

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Author by Sarah Hallman Pelmas
Genre : Rhetoric
Publisher :
ISBN : UCAL:C3408876
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 558 Page
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The American Public S Knowledge Of The U S Constitution

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Genre : Constitutional history
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ISBN : UOM:39015014933355
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 39 Page
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The U S Constitution And The Constitutions Of Asia

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Author by Kenneth W. Thompson
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : University Press of Amer
ISBN : UOM:39015019993057
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 104 Page
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The U.S. Constitution was written by men who sought not only to fashion a government for themselves but for societies everywhere. Their ideas formed a document that may be more far-reaching than the greatest scientific discovery in its influence on governments and societies throughout the world. The present volume, which examines that influence, is one in a series on constitutions in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Its focus is on the mutual interaction of the U.S. Constitution and constitutions in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Australia, and the People's Republic of China. It examines both historical and contemporary constitutions and evaluates fundamental problems that recur in important world regions.

U S Insular Areas Application Of The U S Constitution Report To The Chairman Committee On Resources House Of Representatives

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN : 9781428979352
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The Oxford Handbook Of The U S Constitution

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Author by Mark V. Tushnet
Genre : Constitutional law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN : 9780190245757
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Views : 1110 Page
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The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the perspectives of history, political science, law, rights, and constitutional themes, while focusing on its development, structures, rights, and role in the U.S. political system and culture. This Handbook enables readers within and beyond the U.S. to develop a critical comprehension of the literature on the Constitution, along with accessible and up-to-date analysis. The historical essays included in this Handbook cover the Constitution from 1620 right through the Reagan Revolution to the present. Essays on political science detail how contemporary citizens in the United States rely extensively on political parties, interest groups, and bureaucrats to operate a constitution designed to prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics and an entrenched bureaucracy. The essays on law explore how contemporary citizens appear to expect and accept the exertions of power by a Supreme Court, whose members are increasingly disconnected from the world of practical politics. Essays on rights discuss how contemporary citizens living in a diverse multi-racial society seek guidance on the meaning of liberty and equality, from a Constitution designed for a society in which all politically relevant persons shared the same race, gender, religion and ethnicity. Lastly, the essays on themes explain how in a globalized world, people living in the United States can continue to be governed by a constitution originally meant for a society geographically separated from the rest of the civilized world. Whether a return to the pristine constitutional institutions of the founding or a translation of these constitutional norms in the present is possible remains the central challenge of U.S. constitutionalism today.