Lipkin Constitutional Revolutions

Pragmatism and the Role of Judicial Review in American Constitutionalism
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8051-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten

Rethinks constitutional jurisprudence from a postmodern perspective, attempting to integrate a Kuhnian approach to intellectual transformations with a Rawlsian pragmatic approach to decision making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipkin, Robert Justin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Preface Introduction Constitutional Legitimacy and the Countermajoritarian Problem Originalism and Constitutional Meaning The Primacy of Constitutional Change The Fallacy of Monist Constitutional Adjudication Metaphysical Realism and Modern Constitutionalism Constitutional Revolutions The American Communitarian Republic An Overview 1 Constitutionalism and Dualist Politics Ackerman’s Dualism and Postmodern Pragmatism Law as Integrity and Constitutional Revolutions Two Conceptions of the Relationship between Fit andJustification Pragmatism and Law as Integrity Right Answers in Hard Cases 3 The Theory of Constitutional Revolutions The Proper Role of Dualism in ConstitutionalJurisprudence Constitutional Paradigms The Theory of Constitutional Revolutions Background Theories of Constitutional Change The Theory of Judicial Reasoning 4 The Historical Defense of the Theory The Countermajoritarian Question and the History ofRevolutionary Adjudication The Formative Revolutions Contemporary Revolutions The Conceptual Defense The Political Defense Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Justin Lipkin is Professor of Law and H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law at Widener University in Wilmington, Delaware.