Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It)Oxford University Press, 28. 9. 2006. - 272 страница Levinson argues that too many of our Constitution's provisions promote either unjust or ineffective government. Under the existing blueprint, we can neither rid ourselves of incompetent presidents nor assure continuity of government following catastrophic attacks. Less important, perhaps, but certainly problematic, is the appointment of Supreme Court judges for life. Adding insult to injury, the United States Constitution is the most difficult to amend or update of any constitution currently existing in the world today. Democratic debate leaves few stones unturned, but we tend to take our basic constitutional structures for granted. Levinson boldly challenges the American people to undertake a long overdue public discussion on how they might best reform this most hallowed document and construct a constitution adequate to our democratic values. "Admirably gutsy and unfashionable." --Michael Kinsley, The New York Times "Bold, bracingly unromantic, and filled with illuminating insights. He accomplishes an unlikely feat, which is to make a really serious argument for a new constitutional convention, one that is founded squarely on democratic ideals." --Cass R. Sunstein, The New Republic "Everyone who cares about how our government works should read this thoughtful book." --Washington Lawyer |
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... present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for ...
... present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for ...
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... present time is viewed as insufficiently protective of such rights, that is because of the limited imagination of those interpreters with the most political power, including members of the Supreme Court. So I was willing in effect to ...
... present time is viewed as insufficiently protective of such rights, that is because of the limited imagination of those interpreters with the most political power, including members of the Supreme Court. So I was willing in effect to ...
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... present danger” to achieving the laudable and inspiring goals to which this country professes to be committed, including republican self-government. I believe that the best way to grasp the goals of our common enterprise is to ponder ...
... present danger” to achieving the laudable and inspiring goals to which this country professes to be committed, including republican self-government. I believe that the best way to grasp the goals of our common enterprise is to ponder ...
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... present in various articles of the Constitution. The most obvious example is the bar placed on Congress's ability to forbid the participation by Americans in the international slave trade until 1808.4 The most charitable interpretation ...
... present in various articles of the Constitution. The most obvious example is the bar placed on Congress's ability to forbid the participation by Americans in the international slave trade until 1808.4 The most charitable interpretation ...
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... present at time B. Practical exigencies that required certain political compromises in 1787 no longer obtain today. We have long since realized this about slavery. It is time that we apply the same critical eye to the compromise of 1787 ...
... present at time B. Practical exigencies that required certain political compromises in 1787 no longer obtain today. We have long since realized this about slavery. It is time that we apply the same critical eye to the compromise of 1787 ...
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TooPowerful Presidents Chosen in an Indefensible Process Who Cannot Be Displaced Even When They Are Manifestly Incompetent | 79 |
An Idea Whose Time Has Passed | 123 |
5 The Constitution as Creator of SecondClass Citizens | 141 |
6 The Impermeable Article V | 159 |
What Is to Be Done? | 167 |
The Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson | 181 |
The Constitution of the United States | 183 |
AFTERWORD FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION | 201 |
NOTES | 217 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 239 |
INDEX | 243 |
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