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Constitutional Faith
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Sanford Levinson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-11 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"The book is intended to make clearer the ambiguities of "constitutional faith," i.e. wholehearted attachment to the Constitution as the center of one's (and ul
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Goodwin Liu
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is
Constitutional Redemption
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: J. M. Balkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-09 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Political constitutions are compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate is Americans’ faith that the constitutional system can be
Living Constitution, Dying Faith
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Bradley C. S. Watson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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In Living Constitution, Dying Faith, political scientist and legal historian Bradley Watson examines how the contemporary embrace of the "living" Constitution h
Our Undemocratic Constitution
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Sanford Levinson
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Levinson here argues that too many of our Constitution's provisions promote either unjust or ineffective government. Under the existing blueprint, we can neithe