Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Historical Documentary Editions
Author: Historical Documentary Editions 2000
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Historical Documentary Editions 1993
Author: Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment
Author: Ralph A. RossumPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739102862
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln worried that the "walls" of the constitution would ultimately be leveled by the "silent artillery of time." His fears materialized with the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which, by eliminating federalism's structural protection, altered the very nature and meaning of federalism. Ralph A. Rossum's provocative new book considers the forces unleashed by an amendment to install the direct election of U.S. Senators. Far from expecting federalism to be protected by an activist court, the Framers, Rossum argues, expected the constitutional structure, particularly the election of the Senate by state legislatures, to sustain it. In Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment Rossum challenges the fundamental jurisprudential assumptions about federalism. He also provides a powerful indictment of the controversial federalist decisions recently handed down by an activist U.S. Supreme Court seeking to fill the gap created by the Seventeenth Amendment's ratification and protect the original federal design. Rossum's masterful handling of the development of federalism restores the true significance to an amendment previously consigned to the footnotes of history. It demonstrates how the original federal design has been amended out of existence; the interests of states as states abandoned and federalism left unprotected, both structurally and democratically. It highlights the ultimate irony of constitutional democracy: that an amendment intended to promote democracy, even at the expense of federalism, has been undermined by an activist court intent on protecting federalism, at the expense of democracy.
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Commentaries on the Constitution, public and private, 8 November to 17 December, 1787
Author: Merrill JensenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher.
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
Author: John P. KaminskiDocumentary Editing
Author: America, History and Life
Author: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 16
Author: Merrill JensenPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher.
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: pt. 2. Edited by J. P. Kaminski and G. J.Saladino
Author: Merrill JensenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description