Longest Night Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000

Name: Longest Night Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000
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ISBN: 9780520233737

ISBN-10: 0520233735

ISBN-13: 9780520233737

Edition: 2002

Authors: Arthur J. Jacobson, Michel Rosenfeld

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The American presidential election of 2000 was perhaps the most remarkable, and in many ways the most unsettling, that the country has yet experienced. The millennial election raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legitimate role of American courts, state and federal, and in particular about the United States Supreme Court.The Longest Nightpresents a lively and informed reaction to the legal aftermath of the election by the most prominent experts on the subject. With a balance of opposing views--including those of some of the most distinguished foreign commentators writing on the subject today--the contributors…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/28/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 428
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Cast and Chronology



In the Heat of the Battle



Equal Protection for Votes




Law and Data: The Butterfly Ballot Episode




The Machinery of Democracy in America



Disputing Elections




The Decisions



A Badly Flawed Election




Exchange between Ronald Dworkin and Charles Fried



Bush v. Gore: Three Strikes for the Constitution, the Court, and Democracy, but There Is Always Next Season




The Unbearable Rightness of Bush v. Gore




The Ghostwriters




Notes for the Unpublished Supplemental Separate Opinions in Bush v. Gore




American Perspectives



Anatomy of a Constitutional Coup




The Many Faces of Bush v. Gore




Springtime for Rousseau




Machiavelli in Robes? The Court in the Election




Foreign Perspectives



A Flawed yet Resilient System: A View from Jerusalem




Constitutional Council Review of Presidential Elections in France and a French Judicial Perspective on Bush v. Gore




Seven Reasons Why Bush v. Gore Would Have Been Unlikely in Germany




Bush v. Gore: A View from Italy




Democracy in America: A European Perspective on the Millennial Election




Reform?



Weighing the Alternatives: Reform or Deform?




The Electoral College: A Fatally Flawed Institution




The Electoral College: A Modest Contribution




Popular Election of the President without a Constitutional Amendment



List of Contributors


Index