Amending America's Unwritten Constitution
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Cambridge University Press
Veröffentlichungsort:
Cambridge
Entstehungszeit:
2022
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1 online resource (254 pages)
Sprache:
Englisch
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Abstract:
How is the 'unwritten Constitution' amended? What is gained or lost by changing America's 'unwritten Constitution' with a written amendment?.
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Return to Constitutional Basics:Amendment, Constitution, and Writtenness -- I What Is America's "Constitution"? -- A Defining America's "Constitution" -- B Beyond the Text -- C The Complexities of Federalism -- D Underlying the Text -- II What Is "Unwritten" about America's Constitution? -- A Constitutional Conventions and the Unwritten Constitution -- B Interpretation, Expectations, and the Unwritten Constitution -- C Unwritten Constitutionalism All the Way Down? -- III What is an Amendment to an "Unwritten" Constitution? -- A Understanding Amendment -- B The American Idea of Amendment -- C Amendment as Contrast -- IV An Invitation -- 1 The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States -- I Unwritten Constitutionalism -- A Aristotle's Unwritten Constitution -- B Gödel's Unwritten Constitution -- C Contract Law's Unwritten Constitution -- II The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States -- A The Unwritten Constitution in the Courts -- B The Unwritten Constitution Outside of the Courts -- III Unwritten Constitutional Regimes in the United States -- A Constitutional Conventions, Super-Statutes, and Super-Precedents -- B The Working Constitution -- IV Decentering the Written Text -- 2 Enumerating Amendments -- I Introduction: The Challenge of Enumeration -- II Theorizing about "Transformation" Enumerated or Unwritten -- III Changing "Constitutional Meaning" -- IV Amendment by Judiciary? -- V Powers Constituent and Constituted -- 3 Change Is the Only Constant: Unwritten Amendments and the Courts -- Introduction -- I Constitutional Equilibria -- II Three Case Studies -- A The Courts' Role in the Unwritten "Redemption Amendments" -- B The Courts' Role in the De Facto ERA.
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Return to Constitutional Basics:Amendment, Constitution, and Writtenness -- I What Is America's "Constitution"? -- A Defining America's "Constitution" -- B Beyond the Text -- C The Complexities of Federalism -- D Underlying the Text -- II What Is "Unwritten" about America's Constitution? -- A Constitutional Conventions and the Unwritten Constitution -- B Interpretation, Expectations, and the Unwritten Constitution -- C Unwritten Constitutionalism All the Way Down? -- III What is an Amendment to an "Unwritten" Constitution? -- A Understanding Amendment -- B The American Idea of Amendment -- C Amendment as Contrast -- IV An Invitation -- 1 The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States -- I Unwritten Constitutionalism -- A Aristotle's Unwritten Constitution -- B Gödel's Unwritten Constitution -- C Contract Law's Unwritten Constitution -- II The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States -- A The Unwritten Constitution in the Courts -- B The Unwritten Constitution Outside of the Courts -- III Unwritten Constitutional Regimes in the United States -- A Constitutional Conventions, Super-Statutes, and Super-Precedents -- B The Working Constitution -- IV Decentering the Written Text -- 2 Enumerating Amendments -- I Introduction: The Challenge of Enumeration -- II Theorizing about "Transformation" Enumerated or Unwritten -- III Changing "Constitutional Meaning" -- IV Amendment by Judiciary? -- V Powers Constituent and Constituted -- 3 Change Is the Only Constant: Unwritten Amendments and the Courts -- Introduction -- I Constitutional Equilibria -- II Three Case Studies -- A The Courts' Role in the Unwritten "Redemption Amendments" -- B The Courts' Role in the De Facto ERA.
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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