Framed : America's fifty-one constitutions and the crisis of governance /
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020 | |a 9780199890750 (hardback : alk. paper) | ||
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Framed : |b America's fifty-one constitutions and the crisis of governance / |c Sanford Levinson |
260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c c2012 | ||
300 | |a viii, 437 p. ; |c 25 cm | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
505 | 0 | |a Of compromise and constitutions -- What is the pint of preambles? -- How does a "republican form of government" differ from "democracy"? -- Elections and a republican form of government -- Bicameralism -- If two opinions are good, is a third opinion (with the power of most of the time absolutely to kill the decision of the first two opinion-makers) even better? -- Presidentialism (and "gubernatorialism") -- So what, precisely, does one get, as a constitutional matter, upon being elected president? -- Presidential duration in office, the possibility of impeachment, and the role of the vice president -- Divided government -- How "independent" a judiciary do we really want? -- On the judiciary (and supreme court) as guardian of the constitution -- Federalism -- Amendment -- Emergency powers | |
650 | 0 | |a Constitutional law |z United States |x States | |
650 | 0 | |a Constitutional law |z United States | |
650 | 0 | |a Federal government |z United States | |
650 | 0 | |a Separation of powers |z United States | |
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