The limits of constitutional democracy /
From the publisher. Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions:...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2010
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| Series: | University Center for Human Values series
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Table of Contents:
- Constitutional failure : ultimately attitudinal / Sotiros A. Barber
- Successful failures of the American constitution / James E. Fleming
- The disharmonic constitution / Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
- Constitution of failure : the architectonics of a well-founded constitutional order / William F. Harris II
- "In the name of national security" : executive discretion and congressional legislation in the Civil War and World War I / Benjamin A. Kleinerman
- The possibility of constitutional statesmanship / Jeffrey K. Tulis
- Exceptions that prove the rule : embedding emergency government into everyday constitutional life / Kim Lane Schepple
- The glorious commander in chief / Adrian Vermeule
- The relational conception of war powers / Mariah Zeisberg
- Confronting war : rethinking Jackson's concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer / Joseph M. Bessette
- War and constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon
- Three constitutionalist responses to globalization / Jan-Werner Müller
- Constitutionalism in a theocratic world / Ran Hirschl
- Constitutional democracies, coercion, and obligations to include / Rogers M. Smith
- Omniviolence, arms control, and limited government / Daniel Deudney
- Conclusion: Constitutional engagement and its limits / Christopher L. Eisgruber