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Autore: | Kramer Larry <1958-> |
Titolo: | The people themselves [[electronic resource] ] : popular constitutionalism and judicial review / / Larry D. Kramer |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina: | 342.73 |
Soggetto topico: | People (Constitutional law) - United States |
Constituent power - United States | |
Judicial review - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-337) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | In substance, and in principle, the same as it was heretofore : the customary constitution -- A rule obligatory upon every department : the origins of judicial review -- The power under the constitution will always be in the people : the making of the constitution -- Courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument : accepting judicial review -- What every true republican ought to depend on : rejecting judicial supremacy -- Notwithstanding this abstract view : the changing context of constitutional law -- To preserve the constitution, as a perpetual bond of union : the lessons of experience -- A layman's document, not a lawyer's contract : the continuing struggle for popular constitutionalism -- As an American : popular constitutionalism, circa 2003 --Epilogue : judicial review without judicial supremacy. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In this interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and birthed a very different system - and held a very different understanding of citizenship - than Americans believe to be the norm today. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The people themselves |
ISBN: | 0-19-772016-1 |
0-19-988344-0 | |
1-280-53440-0 | |
0-19-803782-1 | |
0-19-530389-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823469503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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