What should constitutions do? /
""In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," James Madison wrote, "the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."1 The task of a constitution is t...
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Table of Contents:
- What are constitutions, and what should (and can) they do? / Larry Alexander
- Constitution and fundamental law : the lesson of classical Athens / John David Lewis
- Contract, covenant, constitution / Loren E. Lomasky
- Constitutionalism in the age of terror / Michael Zuckert and Felix Valenzuela
- The liberal constitution and foreign affairs / Fernando R. Tesón
- Do constitutions have a point? reflections on "parchment barriers" and preambles / Sanford Levinson
- The origins of an independent judiciary in New York, 1621-1777 / Scott D. Gerber
- Foot voting, political ignorance, and constitutional design / Ilya Somin
- Pluralist constitutionalism / William A. Glaston
- Deliberative democracy and constitutions / James S. Fishkin
- The constitution of nondomination / Guido Pincione
- Can we design an optimal constitution? of structural ambiguity and rights clarity / Richard A. Epstein