Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People - Brossura

Moore, Wayne D.

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ISBN 10: 0691002444 ISBN 13: 9780691002446

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

American constitutionalism rests on premises of popular sovereignty, but serious questions remain about how the "people" and their rights and powers fit into the constitutional design. In a book that will radically reorient thinking about the Constitution and its place in the polity, Wayne Moore moves away from an exclusive focus on courts and judges and considers the following queries: Who is included among the people? How are the people politically configured? How may the people act? And how do the people relate to government and other representative structures?Going beyond though not excluding relevant discussions of specific constitutional texts (such as the preamble, articles V and VII, and the ninth, tenth, and fourteenth amendments), Moore examines historical material from the antebellum period, such as the opinions of U.S. Supreme Court justices in the notorious Dred Scott case and significantly different perspectives from the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass. He also looks at influential thinking from the founding period and examines precedents set during prominent controversies involving the establishment of a national bank, regulations of the economy, and efforts to limit sexual and reproductive choices. The penultimate chapter explores issues raised by claims of state interpretive autonomy, and the conclusion models various dimensions of the constitutional order as a whole. The book offers fresh insights into central problems of constitutional history, theory, and

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Winner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Laws and Courts section of the American Political Science Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
"The entire package within which these familiar positions take shape is often refreshingly original.... There is much in Moore's work that merits attention from constitutional theorists."--Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, The Law and Politics Book Review

"[Moore's] reflections on constitutional law are excellent. . . . This book will be useful to professors of Constitutional Law and possibly to students in courses in advanced studies of the Constitution. . . . Professor Moore's treatment of the Dred Scott decision is especially interesting since it weaves in materials that will not be familiar to many readers."--Robert F. Drinan, Law Books in Review

Contenuti

	List of Figures
	Preface
	Introduction. Reconceiving Constitutional Politics	3
Ch. 1	Toward Constitutional Citizenship: Official Pronouncements	13
Ch. 2	Toward Constitutional Citizenship: Unofficial Commitments	37
Ch. 3	Acting through Government and Independently	66
Ch. 4	Enumerations and Implications	105
Ch. 5	Problems of Practical Politics	152
Ch. 6	Reconceiving Supreme Powers	173
Ch. 7	Exercising Powers and Securing Rights	196
Ch. 8	Interpretive Autonomy Revisited	239
	Conclusion. We the People: Reflections	275
	Postscript	287
	Index	291

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691002444
• ISBN 13: 9780691002446
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; U.S.A.
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile