The Crisis Of The Constitution

Author : Ganesh Sitaraman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781101973455

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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution by Ganesh Sitaraman Pdf

In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable—and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America’s republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic? The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our constitutional system.

Author : Charles R. Kesler
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781641771030

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Crisis of the Two Constitutions by Charles R. Kesler Pdf

American politics grows embittered because it is increasingly torn between two rival constitutions, two opposed cultures, two contrary ways of life. American conservatives rally around the founders’ Constitution, as amended and as grounded in the natural and divine rights and duties of the Declaration of Independence. American liberals herald their “living Constitution,” a term that implies that the original is dead or superseded, and that the fundamental political imperative is constant change or transformation (as President Obama called it) toward a more and more perfect social democracy ruled by a Woke elite. Crisis of the Two Constitutions details how we got to and what is at stake in our increasingly divided America. It takes controversial stands on matters political and scholarly, describing the political genius of America’s founders and their efforts to shape future generations through a constitutional culture that included immigration, citizenship, and educational policies. Then it turns to the attempted progressive refounding of America, tracing its accelerating radicalism from the New Deal to the 1960s’ New Left to today’s unhappy campus nihilists. Finally, the volume appraises American conservatives’ efforts, so far unavailing despite many famous victories, to revive the founders’ Constitution and moral common sense. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, what have conservatives learned and where should they go from here? Along the way, Charles R. Kesler argues with critics on the left and right, and refutes fashionable doctrines including relativism, multiculturalism, critical race theory, and radical traditionalism, providing in effect a one-volume guide to the increasingly influential Claremont school of conservative thought by one of its most engaged, and engaging, thinkers.

Author : Margaret Atwood Judson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005334813

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The Crisis of the Constitution by Margaret Atwood Judson Pdf

Author : Tom Ginsburg,Mark D. Rosen,Georg Vanberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108729207

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Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis by Tom Ginsburg,Mark D. Rosen,Georg Vanberg Pdf

Many constitutions include provisions intended to limit the discretion of governments in economic policy. In times of financial crises, such provisions often come under pressure as a result of calls for exceptional responses to crisis situations. This volume assesses the ability of constitutional orders all over the world to cope with financial crises, and the demands for emergency powers that typically accompany them. Bringing together a variety of perspectives from legal scholars, economists, and political scientists, this volume traces the long-run implications of financial crises for constitutional order. In exploring the theoretical and practical problems raised by the constitutionalization of economic policy during times of severe crisis, this volume showcases an array of constitutional design options and the ways they channel governmental responses to emergency.

Author : Mark A. Graber,Sanford Levinson,Mark Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190889005

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Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? by Mark A. Graber,Sanford Levinson,Mark Tushnet Pdf

Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy? There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events that have, for many scholars and observers, generated a feeling of deep foreboding about our collective futures all over the world. Do these events represent simply the normal ebb and flow of political possibilities, or do they instead portend a more permanent move away from constitutional democracy that had been thought triumphant after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989? Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? addresses these questions head-on: Are the forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world general or nation-specific? Why have some major democracies seemingly not experienced these problems? How can we as scholars and citizens think clearly about the ideas of "constitutional crisis" or "constitutional degeneration"? What are the impacts of forces such as globalization, immigration, income inequality, populism, nationalism, religious sectarianism? Bringing together leading scholars to engage critically with the crises facing constitutional democracies in the 21st century, these essays diagnose the causes of the present afflictions in regimes, regions, and across the globe, believing at this stage that diagnosis is of central importance - as Abraham Lincoln said in his "House Divided" speech, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."

Author : Margaret Attwood Judson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : OCLC:500150785

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The Crisis of the Constitution by Margaret Attwood Judson Pdf

Author : Paul L. Murphy
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : UCAL:B4920013

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The Constitution in Crisis Times, 1918-1969 by Paul L. Murphy Pdf

Assesses fifty years of constitutional development against a background of shifting national moods and public pressures.

Author : Margaret Atwood Judson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : OCLC:314181345

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The Crisis in the Constitution by Margaret Atwood Judson Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood Judson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 0374944652

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Crisis of the Constitution by Margaret Atwood Judson Pdf

Author : Peter C. Caldwell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0822319888

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Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law by Peter C. Caldwell Pdf

A path-breaking critical analysis of the meaning and interpretation of the German constitution in the Weimar years (1919-1933).

Author : Christos Memos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351608558

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Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic by Christos Memos Pdf

This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such. Instead, it is considered to be a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent, leading contemporary capitalist societies into a state of social regression, manifest in new forms of barbarism. The author offers a qualitative understanding of the economic crisis as the perversion, or inversion, of the capitalistically organized social relations. The genesis of the current crisis is traced back to the unresolved world crisis surrounding the Great Depression in order to map the course and different "inverted forms" of the continuous global crisis of capitalism, and to reveal their inner connections as derivative of the same social constitution. From a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the book expounds critical social theory, elaborating on the intersection between the early critical theory of the Frankfurt School – mainly Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse – and the "social form" analysis of the Open Marxism school. Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic critically addresses the permanent character of the 1920s–1930s crisis and the "crisis theory" debates; the political crisis in Eastern Europe (1953–1968); the crisis of Keynesianism; the crisis of subversive reason; the crisis, negative anthropology and transformations of the bourgeois individual; the state of social regression and the destructive tendencies after the rise of neoliberalism; and finally, the 2008 financial crisis and its ongoing aftermath.

Author : Michael S. Greve
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674061918

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The Upside-Down Constitution by Michael S. Greve Pdf

Over the course of the nation’s history, the Constitution has been turned upside-down, Michael Greve argues in this provocative book. The Constitution’s vision of a federalism in which local, state, and federal government compete to satisfy the preferences of individuals has given way to a cooperative, cartelized federalism that enables interest groups to leverage power at every level for their own benefit. Greve traces this inversion from the Constitution’s founding through today, dispelling much received wisdom along the way. The Upside-Down Constitution shows how federalism’s transformation was a response to states’ demands, not an imposition on them. From the nineteenth-century judicial elaboration of a competitive federal order, to the New Deal transformation, to the contemporary Supreme Court’s impoverished understanding of constitutional structure, and the “devolution” in vogue today, Greve describes a trend that will lead to more government and fiscal profligacy, not less. Taking aim at both the progressive heirs of the New Deal and the vocal originalists of our own time, The Upside-Down Constitution explains why the current fiscal crisis will soon compel a fundamental renegotiation of a new federalism grounded in constitutional principles.

Author : Axel Hadenius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521573114

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Democracy's Victory and Crisis by Axel Hadenius Pdf

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address questions central to the development and survival of democratic rule.

Author : Robert Andrew Young
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044523046

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Confederation in Crisis by Robert Andrew Young Pdf

Preface Introduction I The Citizens and the Constitution 1 We the People: Public Opinion, Sovereignty and the Constitution Édouard Cloutier 2 Constitutional Politics in the West and the Rest Roger Gibbins Interchange II The Economy and the Constitution 3 How Economics is Shaping the Constitutional Debate in Quebec Pierre Fortin 4 Federalism and Negative-Sum Games Grant L. Reuber Interchange III Government Strategies and the Constitution 5 The Constitutional Game in Quebec: Options, Interests, Strategies, Outcomes Andre Blais 6 The Future Process of Canadian Constitutional Politics Peter Russell Interchange 7 In Summation Conclusion Contributors Further Reading

Author : Markus W. Gehring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487962

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Europe's Second Constitution by Markus W. Gehring Pdf

European constitutionalisation has met with scepticism - this book analyses the steps necessary to move to EU's 'Second Constitution'.