Our unsettled constitution : a new defense of constitutionalism and judicial review

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Our unsettled constitution : a new defense of constitutionalism and judicial review

Louis Michael Seidman

Yale University Press, c2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Ours is an age of growing doubt about constitutional theory and of outright hostility to any theory that defends judicial review. Why should a tiny number of unelected judges be able to validate or invalidate laws on such politically controversial issues as abortion, religion, gender, and sex-or even determine how the president is elected? In this provocative book, a leading constitutional theorist offers an entirely original defense of judicial review. Louis Michael Seidman argues that judicial review is defensible if we set aside common but erroneous assumptions-that constitutional law should be independent from our political commitments and that the role of constitutional law is to settle political disagreement. Seidman develops a theory of "unsettlement." A constitution that unsettles, that destabilizes outcomes produced by the political process, creates no permanent losers nursing deep-seated grievances, he says. An "unsettling" constitution helps to build a community founded on consent by enticing losers into a continuing conversation. The author applies this theory to an array of well-known cases heard by the Supreme Court over the past several decades, including the fall 2000 election decision.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA54840483
  • ISBN
    • 0300085311
  • LCCN
    2001002489
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New Haven ; London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 260 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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