In: Constitutional thinking
Introduction : Zombie (or Dinosaur) constitutionalism? The revival of nullification and secession -- The 21st century rediscovery of nullification and secession in American political rhetoric : frivolousness incarnate, or serious arguments to be wrestled with? / Sanford Levinson -- How to maintain a constitution : the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions and James Madison's struggle with the problem of constitutional maintenance / Jonathan Gienapp -- Living, dead, and undead : nullification past and present / James H. Read and Neal Allen -- Marijuana, nullification, and the checks and balances model of federalism / Ernest A. Young -- Almost legal : disobedience and partial nullification in American constitutional politics and law / Mark A. Graber -- To kill and die for the constitution : nullification and insurrectionary violence / Jared A. Goldstein -- Political facts, legal fictions / Mark R. Killenbeck -- Nullification : three comparative notes / Ran Hirschl -- Continuity in secession : the case of the Confederate Constitution / Alison L. LaCroix -- The logic and design of a low-commitment constitution (or, how to stop worrying about the right to secede) / Zachary Elkins -- Secession, transnational precedents, and constitutional silences / Vicki C. Jackson -- Secession as a problem in negotiation / Mark Tushnet
In: Constitutional Thinking Series
The book focuses on the revival of "nullificationist," or even "secessionist," arguments, both in the United States and abroad, relative to the authority of national institutions, including courts, over dissenting subnational units or groups of individual citizens.
Englisch
University Press of Kansas
9780700622993, 9780700622979, 9780700622986
vi, 375 Seiten
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