We the people / Bruce Ackerman.
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| Other title: | We the people : foundations. We the people : transformations. We the people : civil rights revolution. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1991-
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Table of Contents:
- V. 1. FOUNDATIONS (1991): DISCOVERING THE CONSTITUTION: Dualist democracy
- The bicentennial myth
- One constitution, three regimes
- The middle republic
- The modern republic
- The possibility of interpretation
- NEO-FEDERALISM: Publius
- The lost revolution
- Normal politics
- Higher lawmaking
- Why dualism?
- V. 2. TRANSFORMATIONS (1998): IN THE BEGINNING: Higher lawmaking
- Reframing the Founding
- The Founding precedent
- RECONSTRUCTION: Formalist dilemmas
- Presidential leadership
- The Convention/Congress
- Interpreting the mandate
- The great transformation
- MODERNITY: From Reconstruction to New Deal
- Rethinking the New Deal
- The missing amendments
- Rediscovery or creation?
- Reclaiming the Constitution.
- V. 3. THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (2014): Introduction : Confronting the twentieth century
- DEFINING THE CANON: Are we a nation?
- The living Constitution
- The assassin's bullet
- The New Deal transformed
- The turning point
- Erasure by judiciary?
- LANDMARKS OF RECONSTRUCTION: Spheres of humiliation
- Spheres of calculation
- Technocracy in the workplace
- The breakthrough of 1968
- DILEMMAS OF JUDICIAL LEADERSHIP: Brown's fate
- The switch in time
- Spheres of intimacy
- Betrayal?