LEADER 04680nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910779902803321 005 20230421041330.0 010 $a1-4008-0490-6 010 $a1-4008-2163-0 010 $a1-282-75219-7 010 $a9786612752193 010 $a1-4008-1252-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821631 035 $a(CKB)111056486506858 035 $a(EBL)617284 035 $a(OCoLC)705526988 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000236830 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206242 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236830 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10173423 035 $a(PQKB)10910697 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617284 035 $a(OCoLC)51479032 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36027 035 $a(DE-B1597)446132 035 $a(OCoLC)979905004 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821631 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035811 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275219 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486506858 100 $a19940621d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aResponding to imperfection$b[electronic resource] $ethe theory and practice of constitutional amendment /$fSanford Levinson, editor 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (341 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-02570-3 311 0 $a0-691-08657-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tOne. Introduction: Imperfection and Amendability /$rLevinson, Sanford --$tTwo. How Many Times Has the United States Constitution Been Amended? (A) < 26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) > 27: Accounting for Constitutional Change /$rLevinson, Sanford --$tThree. Constitutionalism in the United States: From Theory to Politics /$rGriffin, Stephen M. --$tFour. Higher Lawmaking /$rAckerman, Bruce --$tFive. Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Amendment /$rReed Amar, Akhil --$tSix. The Plain Meaning of Article V /$rDow, David R. --$tSeven. Amending the Presuppositions of a Constitution /$rSchauer, Frederick --$tEight. Merlin's Memory: The Past and Future Imperfect of the Once and Future Polity /$rMurphy, Walter F. --$tNine. The Case against Implicit Limits on the Constitutional Amending Process /$rVile, John R. --$tTen. The "Original" Thirteenth Amendment and the Limits to Formal Constitutional Change /$rBrandon, Mark E. --$tEleven. Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment /$rLutz, Donald S. --$tTwelve. The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Eastern Europe /$rHolmes, Stephen / Sunstein, Cass R. --$tThirteen. Midrash: Amendment through the Molding of Meaning /$rZohar, Noam J. --$tAppendix: Amending Provisions of Selected New Constitutions in Eastern Europe --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aAn increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well. The contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Mark E. Brandon, David R. Dow, Stephen M. Griffin, Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, Sanford Levinson, Donald Lutz, Walter Murphy, Frederick Schauer, John R. Vile, and Noam J. Zohar. 606 $aConstitutional amendments$zUnited States 606 $aConstitutional amendments 615 0$aConstitutional amendments 615 0$aConstitutional amendments. 676 $a342.73/03 676 $a347.3023 686 $aPL 730$2rvk 701 $aLevinson$b Sanford$f1941-$01090954 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779902803321 996 $aResponding to imperfection$93756531 997 $aUNINA