This work examines the relation between the concept of "the people" and the design of the American constitution. It asks such questions as: Who is included among the people?; How are the people politically configured?; How may the people act?; and how do the people relate to government structures? The author considers historical material from the antebellum period, such as the opinions of the US Supreme Court justices in the Dred Scott case, and different perspectives from the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass. Influential thinking from the founding period is covered; and there is also an examination of issues raised by claims of state interpretive autonomy. The conclusion models various dimensions of the constitutional order as a whole.
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"Winner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Laws and Courts section of the American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" "The entire package within which these familiar positions take shape is often refreshingly original.... There is much in Moore's work that merits attention from constitutional theorists."---Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, The Law and Politics Book Review "[Moore's] reflections on constitutional law are excellent. . . . This book will be useful to professors of Constitutional Law and possibly to students in courses in advanced studies of the Constitution. . . . Professor Moore's treatment of the Dred Scott decision is especially interesting since it weaves in materials that will not be familiar to many readers."---Robert F. Drinan, Law Books in Review
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 197 mm
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978-0-691-01111-0 (9780691011110)
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