Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance.

Door: Levinson, Sanford.

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• ISBN: 9780199325245
• Uitgever: Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. Paperback. 448 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Conditie: als nieuw
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• Extra informatie: - In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and whether we accept those assumptions 225 years later. In Framed, Levinson challenges our belief that the most important features of our constitutions concern what rights they protect. Instead, he focuses on the fundamental procedures of governance such as congressional bicameralism; the selection of the President by the electoral college, or the dimensions of the President's veto power--not to mention the near impossibility of amending the United States Constitution. These seemingly "settled" and "hardwired" structures contribute to the now almost universally recognized "dysfunctionality" of American politics.
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