Author: George D. BradenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Illinois Constitution
Author: George D. BradenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Responding to Imperfection
Author: Sanford LevinsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821630
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An 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.
Constitutional Amendments
Author: Richard AlbertPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190640499
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change. Drawing from dozens of constitutions in every region of the world, this book blends theory with practice to answer two all-important questions: what is an amendment and how should constitutional designers structure the procedures of constitutional change? The first matters now more than ever. Reformers are exploiting the rules of constitutional amendment, testing the limits of legal constraint, undermining the norms of democratic government, and flouting the constitution as written to create entirely new constitutions that masquerade as ordinary amendments. The second question is central to the performance and endurance of constitutions. Constitutional designers today have virtually no resources to guide them in constructing the rules of amendment, and scholars do not have a clear portrait of the significance of amendment rules in the project of constitutionalism. This book shows that no part of a constitution is more important than the procedures we use change it. Amendment rules open a window into the soul of a constitution, exposing its deepest vulnerabilities and revealing its greatest strengths. The codification of amendment rules often at the end of the text proves that last is not always least.
Research: a National Resource ...
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Science CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Report on Materials of Constitution Revision Commission Relating to Provisions in California Constitution Recommended Or Endorsed by Commission
Author: J. GouldModel Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of DelegatesPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Author: United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil DisordersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Constitution of the United States, Constitution of the State of California, 1879, as Last Amended ... and Related Documents
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Department Reports of Pennsylvania
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Author: