Legislation and statutory interpretation /
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New York : [United States] :
Foundation Press ; Thomson/West,
2006
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| 100 | 1 | |a Eskridge, William N., |c Jr., |d 1951- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Legislation and statutory interpretation / |c by William N. Eskridge, Jr., Philip P. Frickey, Elizabeth Garrett |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Foundation Press ; |a [United States] : |b Thomson/West, |c 2006 | ||
| 300 | |a xx, 405 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Concepts and insights series | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Chapter 1. An Introduction to Legislation 1 -- Chapter 2. Theories of Representation 19 -- I. Direct versus Representative Democracy 22 -- A. Should We Have a Representative Democracy? 23 -- B. Representative Plus Direct Democracy 26 -- C. The Role of the Courts in Policing Direct Democracy 34 -- II. Qualification and Election of Representatives 40 -- A. Who Is Eligible To Serve as a Representative? 42 -- B. The Right To Political Participation: Voting -- and Choice 47 -- C. Fair Aggregation of Votes and Gerrymandering 51 -- III. "Corruption" in Representatives' Deliberations 56 -- A. Corruption the Old-Fashioned Way: Bribery 57 -- B. Other Regulation of Corrupt Conflicts of Interest 58 -- C. Money in Politics: Does It "Corrupt"? 61 -- Chapter 3. Theories of the Legislative Process 69 -- I. Proceduralist Theories 70 -- A. The Legislature as an Obstacle Path 70 -- B. Vetogates as a Method To Make Legislating -- Difficult and Infrequent 79 -- C. The Effect of Proceduralism on Legislative Deliberation 81 -- II. Interest Group Theories 83 -- A. Interest Group Liberalism: Pluralism as Positive -- Force in Politics 85 -- B. Public Choice Theory: Interest Groups as -- Pernicious Political Influences 87 -- C. Interest Group Theories and the Transactional -- Model of the Political Process: Explanation -- and Criticisms 92 -- III. Institutional Theories 99 -- A. The Effect of Institutions on Decisionmaking 99 -- B. Positive Political Theory: Institutionalism -- and Game Theory 104 -- C. The Article I, Section 7 Game 106 -- 1. Interactive, Sequential Lawmaking by -- Interrelated Actors 106 -- 2. The Proposed BTU Tax: A Case Study 109 -- 3. Further Developments in the Game 113 -- Chapter 4. Electoral Structures 117 -- I. Regulating Ballot Access and Campaigns 119 -- A. The Constitutional Issues Implicated by Ballot -- Access Laws 120 -- B. Criticisms of the Court's Permissive Approach -- to Ballot Access Laws 124 -- C. Ballots, Voting Cues, and the Informed Voter 127 -- II. Regulation of Political Parties and Their Selection -- of Candidates 134 -- A. State Regulation of Parties' Methods of -- Selecting Candidates 135 -- B. Judicial Involvement in Parties' Internal Decisions 139 -- C. Patronage: Corrupt Practice or Politics as Usual? 141 -- III. Campaign Finance Reform 143 -- A. The Structure of Federal Campaign Finance -- Law Before BCRA 145 -- B. BCRA: Closing the Loopholes of Soft Money -- and Issue Ads 150 -- C. State Campaign Finance Reform Laws 159 -- Chapter 5. Legislative Structures 163 -- I. Legislative Immunities 165 -- A. Speech or Debate Clause: The Sole Protection for -- Members of Congress 165 -- B. Defining Legislative Acts: The Narrow Scope of -- the Speech or Debate Clause 169 -- C. Immunities Accorded to State Lawmakers 172 -- II. Structures that Shape Legislative Deliberation 175 -- A. Single-Subject Requirements 176 -- B. Due Process of Lawmaking: A Concept for -- Courts and Legislatures 181 -- C. The Federal Budget Process 188 -- III. The Effect of Outside Forces on the Legislative Process 196 -- A. The Regulation of Lobbying: Relying on -- Disclosure To Combat Corruption 196 -- B. The Line Item Veto Power 204 -- C. Congressional Interaction with the Executive Branch: -- The Legislative Veto and Oversight 210 -- Chapter 6. Theories of Statutory Interpretation 219 -- I. Intentionalist Theories 221 -- A. Specific Intent 222 -- B. Imaginative Reconstruction 226 -- C. Purposivism 228 -- II. Textualist Theories 231 -- A. The Soft Plain Meaning Rule 231 -- B. The New Textualism 235 -- C. Critiques of the New Textualism 238 -- III. Dynamic Theories 245 -- A. Best Answer Theories 246 -- B. Pragmatic Theory 249 -- C. Critical Theories 252 -- Chapter 7. The Role of Text and Precedent in -- Statutory Interpretation 257 -- I. Sources for Discerning Statutory "Plain Meaning" 259 -- A. Ordinary Meaning Canons 259 -- B. Canons of Word Association (Noscitur a Sociis -- and Ejusdem Generis) 261 -- C. Canons of Negative Implication -- (e.g., Inclusio Unius) 263 -- D. Grammar and Punctuation Rules (e.g., -- The Rule of the Last Antecedent) 264 -- E. Exceptions to Ordinary Grammar Rules (Man -- Includes Woman, Singular Includes Plural) 267 -- F. Avoiding Absurd Results and Correcting -- Scriveners' Errors 267 -- II. Whole Act Rule and Holistic Textual Sources 271 -- A. Presumption of Statutory Consistency 273 -- B. The Rule Against Surplusage 275 -- C. Statutory Amendment and Evolution 276 -- D. Statutory Structure 277 -- E. Other Parts of the Statute: Preambles, -- Titles, Provisos 280 -- F. Statutory Conflicts (No Repeals by Implication; -- Last Enacted Rule; Specific over General) 281 -- III. Precedent and Statutory Meaning 284 -- A. The Super-Strong Presumption of Correctness -- for Statutory Precedents 285 -- B. The Reenactment Rule 290 -- C. Judicial Constructions of Similar Statutes 291 -- Chapter 8. Extrinsic Sources for Statutory -- Interpretation 295 -- I. The Common Law 298 -- II. Legislative History 303 -- A. Criteria for Using Legislative History 304 -- B. Hierarchy of Legislative History Sources 310 -- C. The Relationship Between Legislative History -- and Plain Meaning 317 -- III. Administrative Interpretations 322 -- A. The Chevron Revolution? 324 -- B. Scope and Details of the Agency-Deference Doctrine.. 330 -- C. Critique of Strong Judicial Deference to -- Agency Interpretations 338 -- Chapter 9. Substantive Canons of Statutory -- Interpretation 341 -- I. An Overview of the Substantive Canons 343 -- A. Liberal versus Strict Construction -- Change versus -- Continuity in Legal Regimes 343 -- B. Presumptions and Clear Statement Rules 352 -- C. Policies Potentially Served by Substantive Canons 355 -- II. Three Important Substantive Canons 360 -- A. Avoiding Serious Constitutional Issues 360 -- B. The Federalism Canons 367 -- C. The Rule of Lenity 375 -- III. Conclusions About the Canons -- and About -- Statutory Interpretation 382 | |
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