Buch(elektronisch)1998

American constitutionalism: from theory to politics

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1: American constitutionalism -- The idea of American constitutionalism -- The sovereignty of the people -- The problem of constitutional change -- 2: The constitution and political institutions -- Madison and the problem of faction -- The Constitution and the concept of the state -- The Constitution and American political development -- 3: Judicial review and American democracy -- The establishment of Judicial independence -- Judicial review and democracy in the modern state -- The contemporary debate and the role of the Supreme Court -- 4: Problems of constitutional adjudication -- The Supreme Court and American constitutionalism -- The process of Judicial decisionmaking -- 5: Theories of constitutional interpretation -- A pluralist theory of American constitutional interpretation -- The contemporary theoretical debate -- Democracy and theories of interpretation -- The problem of history in constitutional interpretation -- Interpreting the fourteenth amendment -- Republicanism and constitutional philosophy -- 6: Constitutional crisis and reform -- Constitutional crisis -- Constitutional reform -- The future of American constitutionalism

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Buch(elektronisch)#11998

American Constitutionalism: From Theory to Politics

Griffin, Stephen M.

Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by judicial practice in the United States over the past three centuries, particularly since the Warren Court, and locates both theory and practices that have inspired dispute among jurists and scholars i