02709nam 2200601 450 991082086630332120230124191444.00-19-026012-20-19-989828-6(CKB)3230000000204840(SSID)ssj0001038720(PQKBManifestationID)12408438(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001038720(PQKBWorkID)11050658(PQKB)10128988(StDuBDS)EDZ0001100937(MiAaPQ)EBC5770359(MiAaPQ)EBC1109656(MiAaPQ)EBC5741107(Au-PeEL)EBL1109656(OCoLC)958567982(EXLCZ)99323000000020484020190918d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrOn constitutional disobedience /Louis Michael SeidmanOxford :Oxford University Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (xii, 162 pages)Inalienable rights seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-989827-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-157) and index.Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: The Gaudy Contradictions of American Constitutionalism -- Chapter One: The Argument Briefly Stated -- Chapter Two: Obedience over Time -- Chapter Three: The Banality of Constitutional Violation -- Chapter Four: Disobedience and Freedom -- Chapter Five: Ordinary Laws and Extraordinary Arguments.What would the framers of the U.S. Constitution make of multinational corporations? Nuclear weapons? Gay marriage? They led a preindustrial country, much of it dependent on slave labor, huddled on the Atlantic seaboard. The Founders saw society as essentially hierarchical, led naturally by landed gentry like themselves. Yet their commands are still obeyed two centuries and one civil war later. According to this book's author, it is time to stop. The author argues that, in order to bring U.S. basic law up to date, it needs benign neglect.Inalienable rights series.Constitutional lawUnited StatesPhilosophyPOLITICAL SCIENCE / ConstitutionsbisacshConstitutional lawPhilosophy.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions.342.73001POL022000bisacshSeidman Louis Michael1613435MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820866303321On constitutional disobedience3942733UNINA