Inherent rights, the written constitution, and popular sovereignty : the founders' understanding / / Thomas B. McAffee

• Autore: McAffee Thomas B. <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.73/085
• Soggetto topico: Civil rights - United States; Constitutional history - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty -- Contents -- 1 The Modern Debate over Inherent Constitutional Rights: What Is at Stake? -- THE NINTH AMENDMENT -- THE CONSTITUTION'S FOUNDATION -- NOTES -- 2 State Constitutions in the Early American Republic: The Experiment with Republican Government -- THE WRITTEN CONSTITUTION -- Unwritten Principles of Law -- The Importance of the Writing Grows -- POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND LEGISLATIVE POWER -- The Power of the People -- The Key Assumption -- The People as All-Powerful -- THE DECLARATIONS OF RIGHTS -- Popular Power to Establish Rights -- Bills of Rights and Republican Government -- A Special Category of Norms? -- The Power to Amend Declarations of Rights -- Qualifying Inalienable Rights -- SEPARATION OF POWERS AND GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE -- The Omission of Rights -- NOTES -- 3 Constitutional Practice in the Confederation Period: The Search for Effective Limits on Legislative Power -- THE PROBLEM OF LEGISLATIVE EXCESS -- Remedies and Reforms -- Refining Popular Sovereignty -- The National Government -- The Doctrine of Judicial Review and the Sources of Constitutional Decision Making -- THE CONFEDERATION-ERA CASES -- Rutgers v. Waddington -- Trevett v. Weeden -- The Symsbury Case -- Holmes v. Walton -- Bayard and Caton -- THE DEBATE OVER JUDICIAL POWER -- Competing Theories of Judicial Review -- The Lack of a Clear Consensus during the Confederation Period -- James Iredell-Did He Resolve the Issue? -- The Centrality of the Written Constitution -- NOTES -- 4 The Decision at the Philadelphia Convention: The Federal System as Bill of Rights -- THE TENTH AMENDMENT AS A GUARANTEE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- The Text of the Tenth Amendment -- The Mischief to Which the Tenth Amendment was Addressed -- The "Remedy" Embodied in the Tenth Amendment. ; FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE "PROPER" SCOPE OF THE NECESSARY AND PROPER CLAUSE -- The Text of the Necessary and Proper Clause -- The Purpose of the Necessary and Proper Clause -- THE SWEEPING CLAUSE AND THE FRAMERS' CONCEPT OF LIMITED FEDERAL POWERS -- The Limited Powers Scheme and the Arguments against the Necessity of a Bill of Rights -- James Madison and the Necessary and Proper Clause -- The Threat to Rights Presented by a Bill of Rights -- The Sweeping Clause, the Bill of Rights, and the Balance between Government "Energy" and the Protection of Individual Rights -- Civil Juries and Standing Armies: The Rights Omitted -- The Content of the Bill of Rights: The Rights Not Added -- STATE POWER TO CREATE AND PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FROM FEDERAL INTRUSION -- NOTES -- 5 The Ratification-Era Debate over the Omission of a Bill of Rights: The Constitution as Fundamental Positive Law -- THE WRITTEN CONSTITUTION AS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE POPULAR SOVEREIGN -- The Invented Constitution? -- Supremacy, Popular Sovereignty, and the Structure of Federalism-Innovations or Adaptations? -- Popular Sovereignty and the Scope of the People's Constitutive Power -- THE DEBATE OVER THE NECESSITY OF A BILL OF RIGHTS -- The Argument from General Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Design -- Modern Responses to the Antifederalist Argument -- The Federalist Response Based on the Unique Nature of the Federal Constitution -- Arguing that the Federalist Defense Rested on the Idea of Implied Limits on Congress' Powers -- NATURAL AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS AND THE NINTH AMENDMENT -- THE FEDERALIST CLAIM THAT A BILL OF RIGHTS WOULD PRESENT A DANGER TO RIGHTS -- Modern Misreadings of the Federalist Argument -- Understanding the Federalist "Argument of Danger" -- THE DRAFTING AND RATIFICATION PROCESS: FULFILLMENT OR REVISION? -- The Ratification Debate in Virginia -- NOTES. ; 6 The Ninth Amendment and Modern Constitutional Theory -- THE NINTH AND TENTH AMENDMENTS -- A LIMITED NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND UNENUMERATED RIGHTS -- THE NINTH AMENDMENT AND NATURAL RIGHTS -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- MONOGRAPHS -- ARTICLES AND BOOK SECTIONS -- Index -- About the Author.
• Titolo autorizzato: Inherent rights, the written constitution, and popular sovereignty
• ISBN: 979-84-00-67032-9; 0-313-00110-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819208803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions in legal studies ; ; no. 95.