Author: Mary Helen WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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A Perspective of Constitutional Revision in Kentucky
Author: Mary Helen WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Constitutional Ratification without Reason
Author: Jeffrey A. LenowitzPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259348X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This volume focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is submitted by its creators to the people or their representatives in an up or down vote determining implementation. Ratification is increasingly common and routinely recommended by experts. Nonetheless, it is neither neutral nor inevitable. Constitutions can be made without it and when it is used it has significant effects. This raises the central question of the book: should ratification be recommended? Put another way: is there a reason for treating the procedure as a default for the constitution-making process? Surprisingly, these questions are rarely asked. The procedure's worth is assumed, not demonstrated, while ratification is generally overlooked in the literature. In fact, this is the first sustained study of ratification. To address these oversights, this book defines ratification and its types, explains the procedure's effects, conceptual origins, and history, and then concentrates on finding reasons for its use. Specifically, it builds up and analyzes the three most likely normative justifications. These urge the implementation of ratification because the procedure: enables the constituent power to make its constitution; fosters representation during constitution-making; or helps create a legitimate constitution. Ultimately, these justifications are found wanting, leading to the conclusion that ratification lacks a convincing, context-independent justification. Thus, until new arguments are developed, experts should not give recommendations for ratification as a matter of course, practitioners should not reach for it uncritically, and-more generally-one should avoid the blanket application of concepts from democratic theory to extraordinary contexts such as constitution-making.
1972 Census of Governments
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Alaska's Constitution
Author: Alaska Legislative Affairs AgencyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781304117380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Informational Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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State Constitutions: Reapportionment
Author: Gordon E. BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apportionment (Election law)
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A Comprehensive Bibliography of American Constitutional and Legal History, 1896-1979
Author: Kermit L. HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Amending the Wisconsin Constitution
Author: Jim SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The ABC's of State and Local Government in America
Author: Edo QuikoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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1974 Annual Supplement
Author: Joan Schmitz BergholtPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1475769067
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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