Constitutional Self-Government

Name: Constitutional Self-Government
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ISBN: 9780674025400

ISBN-10: 0674025407

ISBN-13: 9780674025400

Edition: 2001

Authors: Christopher L. Eisgruber

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Most of us regard the Constitution as the foundation of American democracy. How, then, are we to understand the restrictions that it imposes on legislatures and voters? Why, for example, does the Constitution allow unelected judges to exercise so much power? And why is this centuries-old document so difficult to amend? In short, how can we call ourselves a democracy when we are bound by an entrenched, and sometimes counter-majoritarian, constitution? In Constitutional Self-Government, Christopher Eisgruber focuses directly on the Constitution's seemingly undemocratic features. Whereas other scholars have tried to reconcile these features with majority rule, or simply acknowledged them as…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction



The Democratic Functions of Inflexible Constitutions



Judicial Review and Democratic Legitimacy



Judicial Review and Democratic Flourishing



Text and History in Hard Cases



Liberty, Strategy, and Tradition



Judicial Maintenance of Political Institutions


Conclusion


Notes


Index