Ebook: Our undemocratic constitution : where the constitution goes wrong (and how we the people can correct it)
Author: Sanford Levinson
- Series: And How We the People Can Correct It
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford ; New York
- Language: English
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Prelude: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. Introduction: A Tale of Two Signings. 1. The Ratification Referendum: Sending the Constitution to a New Convention for Repair. 2. Our Undemocratic Legislative Process. 3. The Legacy of Article II: Too-Powerful Presidents, Chosen in an Indefensible Process, Who Cannot Be Displaced Even When They Are Manifestly Incompetent. 4. Life Tenure for Supreme Court Justices: An Idea Read more...
Content: The ratification referendum : sending the constitution to a new convention for repair --
Our undemocratic legislative process --
The legacy of Article II : too-powerful presidents, chosen in an indefensible process, who cannot be displaced even when they are manifestly incompetent --
Life tenure for Supreme Court justices : an idea whose time has passed --
The constitution as creator of second-class citizens --
The impermeable Article V? --
Disenchantment and desire : what is to be done?
Abstract: Prelude: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. Introduction: A Tale of Two Signings. 1. The Ratification Referendum: Sending the Constitution to a New Convention for Repair. 2. Our Undemocratic Legislative Process. 3. The Legacy of Article II: Too-Powerful Presidents, Chosen in an Indefensible Process, Who Cannot Be Displaced Even When They Are Manifestly Incompetent. 4. Life Tenure for Supreme Court Justices: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed. 5. The Constitution as Creator of Second-Class Citizens. 6. The Impermeable Article V. 7. Disenchantment and Desire: What Is to Be Done?. Coda: The Wisdom of Woo