Designing Democracy What Constitutions Do

Name: Designing Democracy What Constitutions Do
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ISBN: 9780195158403

ISBN-10: 0195158407

ISBN-13: 9780195158403

Edition: 2002

Authors: Cass R. Sunstein

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"In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is this conflict necessarily something to fear? In this provocative book, one of our leading political and legal theorists reveals how a nation's divisions of conviction and belief can be used to safeguard democracy. Confronting one explosive political issue after another, from presidential impeachment to the limits of religious liberty, from discrimination against women and gays to the role of the judiciary, Sunstein constructs a powerful new perspective from which to show how democracies negotiate…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction: Tales of Democracy and Law



Deliberative Trouble



Constitutional Principles without Constitutional Theories



Against Tradition



What Should Constitutions Say? Secession and Beyond



Impeaching the President



Democracy and Rights: The Nondelegation Canons



The Anticaste Principle



Homosexuality and the Constitution



Sex Equality vs. Religion



Social and Economic Rights? Lessons from South Africa


Conclusion: Democracy's Constitution


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index