What Should Constitutions Do?

Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul - Fred D. Miller - Jeffrey Paul

What Should Constitutions Do?

Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jeffrey Paul

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Series: Social Philosophy and Policy

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 31 January 2011

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ISBN: 0521175534 ISBN 13: 9780521175531

What Should Constitutions Do?

In this collection, legal scholars, political scientists and philosophers address questions of constitutional purpose, design and law from many viewpoints. Top page

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The essays in this volume - written by prominent philosophers, political scientists and legal scholars - address the basic purposes of constitutions and their status as fundamental law. Some deal with specific constitutional provisions: they ask, for example, which branches of government should have the authority to conduct foreign policy, or how the judiciary should be organized, or what role a preamble should play in a nation's founding document. Other essays explore questions of constitutional design: they consider the advantages of a federal system of government, or the challenges of designing a constitution for a pluralistic society - or they ask what form of constitution best promotes personal liberty and economic prosperity. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Cambridge University Press

City: Cambridge

Pages: 354

More info: height 228 mm width 152 mm weight 470 gr thickness 19 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 320.011 Library of Congress Subject: Political science

Departments: Political science & theory;

Record updated at: 23 March, 2013 time: 03:34

Summary What Should Constitutions Do? 1. What are constitutions, and what should (and can) they do? Larry Alexander; 2. Constitution and fundamental law: the lesson of Classical Athens John David Lewis; 3. Contract, covenant, constitution Loren E. Lomasky; 4. Constitutionalism in the age of terror Michael Zuckert and Peter Valenzuela; 5. The liberal constitution and foreign affairs Fernando R. Teson; 6. Do constitutions have a point? Reflections on 'parchment barriers' and preambles Sanford Levinson; 7. The origins of an independent judiciary in New York, 1621-1777 Scott D. Gerber; 8. Foot voting, political ignorance, and constitutional design Ilya Somin; 9. Pluralist constitutionalism William A. Galston; 10. Deliberative democracy and constitutions James S. Fishkin; 11. The constitution of nondomination Guido Pincione; 12. Can we design an optimal constitution? Of structural ambiguity and rights clarity Richard A. Epstein. Top page

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