Legitimacy and History Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory

Name: Legitimacy and History Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory
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ISBN: 9780300063073

ISBN-10: 0300063075

ISBN-13: 9780300063073

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul W. Kahn

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This provocative book is both a rich intellectual history of 200 years of American constitutional theory and a major contribution to that theory. Paul Kahn argues that self-government is impossible within the constraints placed on government by the Constitution, and that constitutional theory-which attempts to reconcile self-government and history-will never achieve its goal. "I do not know of another book that participates in the constitutional dialogue with the mixture of historical perspective and acute critical eye displayed in this book. It demonstrates sweep, originality, careful criticism, and flashes of insight throughout."-Steven H. Shiffrin "A fascinating and richly nuanced…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Constitutional History as Discourse


To Make a Constitution


Maintenance and the Organism of the State


The Evolving Unwritten Constitution


The Forum of Science in the Constitutional Order


The Locus of Will in Modern Constitutional Theory


Community in Contemporary Constitutional Theory


Conclusion: The End of Constitutional Theory


Notes


Index