
The Limits of Constitutional Democracy.
Title:
The Limits of Constitutional Democracy.
Author:
Tulis, Jeffrey K.
ISBN:
9781400836796
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Series:
The University Center for Human Values Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Constitutional Boundaries -- PART I: WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL FAILURE? -- 1. Constitutional Failure: Ultimately Attitudinal -- 2. Successful Failures of the American Constitution -- 3. The Disharmonic Constitution -- 4. Constitution of Failure: The Architectonics of a Well-Founded Constitutional Order -- PART II: HOW CAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY CONTEND WITH EMERGENCY? -- 5. "In the Name of National Security": Executive Discretion and Congressional Legislation in the Civil War and World War I -- 6. The Possibility of Constitutional Statesmanship -- 7. Exceptions That Prove the Rule: Embedding Emergency Government in Everyday Constitutional Life -- PART III: HOW CAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY CONTEND WITH WAR? -- 8. The Glorious Commander in Chief -- 9. The Relational Conception of War Powers -- 10. Confronting War: Rethinking Jackson's Concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer -- 11. War and Constitutional Change -- PART IV: HOW CAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY CONTEND WITH GLOBALIZATION? -- 12. Three Constitutionalist Reponses to Globalization -- 13. Constitutionalism in a Theocratic World -- 14. Constitutional Democracies, Coercion, and Obligations to Include -- 15. Omniviolence, Arms Control, and Limited Government -- Conclusion. Constitutional Engagement and Its Limits -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What is constitutional democracy? When does it succeed or fail? Can constitutional democracies conduct war? Can they preserve their values and institutions while addressing new forms of global interdependence? The authors gathered here interrogate constitutional democracy's meaning in order to illuminate its future. The book examines key themes--the issues of constitutional failure; the problem of emergency power and whether constitutions should be suspended when emergencies arise; the dilemmas faced when constitutions provide and restrict executive power during wartime; and whether constitutions can adapt to such globalization challenges as immigration, religious resurgence, and nuclear arms proliferation. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sotirios Barber, Joseph Bessette, Mark Brandon, Daniel Deudney, Christopher Eisgruber, James Fleming, William Harris II, Ran Hirschl, Gary Jacobsohn, Benjamin Kleinerman, Jan-Werner Müller, Kim Scheppele, Rogers Smith, Adrian Vermeule, and Mariah Zeisberg.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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