We the People, Volume 1: Foundations

Name: We the People, Volume 1: Foundations
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ISBN: 9780674948419

ISBN-10: 0674948416

ISBN-13: 9780674948419

Edition: 1991

Authors: Bruce Ackerman

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Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation's constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and future of popular sovereignty in America. Only this distinguished scholar could present such an insightful view of the role of the Supreme Court. Rejecting arguments of judicial activists, proceduralists, and neoconservatives, Ackerman proposes a new model of judicial interpretation that would synthesize the constitutional contributions of many generations into a coherent whole. The author ranges from examining the origins of the dualist tradition…

Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University.



Acknowledgments



Discovering the Constitution



Dualist Democracy



The Bicentennial Myth



One Constitution, Three Regimes



The Middle Republic



The Modern Republic



The Possibility of Interpretation



Neo-Federalism



Publius



The Lost Revolution



Normal Politics



Higher Lawnmaking



Why Dualism?


Notes


Index