Title Amending America's Unwritten Constitution

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (254 p.) Series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy Ser Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy Ser Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Return to Constitutional Basics:Amendment, Constitution, and Writtenness -- I What Is America's "Constitution"? -- A Defining America's "Constitution" -- B Beyond the Text -- C The Complexities of Federalism -- D Underlying the Text -- II What Is "Unwritten" about America's Constitution? -- A Constitutional Conventions and the Unwritten Constitution -- B Interpretation, Expectations, and the Unwritten Constitution C Unwritten Constitutionalism All the Way Down? -- III What is an Amendment to an "Unwritten" Constitution? -- A Understanding Amendment -- B The American Idea of Amendment -- C Amendment as Contrast -- IV An Invitation -- 1 The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States -- I Unwritten Constitutionalism -- A Aristotle's Unwritten Constitution -- B Gödel's Unwritten Constitution -- C Contract Law's Unwritten Constitution -- II The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States -- A The Unwritten Constitution in the Courts -- B The Unwritten Constitution Outside of the Courts III Unwritten Constitutional Regimes in the United States -- A Constitutional Conventions, Super-Statutes, and Super-Precedents -- B The Working Constitution -- IV Decentering the Written Text -- 2 Enumerating Amendments -- I Introduction: The Challenge of Enumeration -- II Theorizing about "Transformation" Enumerated or Unwritten -- III Changing "Constitutional Meaning" -- IV Amendment by Judiciary? -- V Powers Constituent and Constituted -- 3 Change Is the Only Constant: Unwritten Amendments and the Courts -- Introduction -- I Constitutional Equilibria -- II Three Case Studies A The Courts' Role in the Unwritten "Redemption Amendments" -- B The Courts' Role in the De Facto ERA -- C Abortion: The Constitutional Equilibrium That Isn't -- III Implications -- Conclusion -- 4 The Role of the People in Unwritten Amendments -- I Legitimacy -- II Durability -- 5 Unwritten State Constitutions? In Search of Constitutional Communities -- Introduction -- I Unwritten Constitutions, Constitutional Constraint, and Constitutional Communities -- II In Search of State Constitutional Communities -- A Anecdotes -- B Institutional Features -- Conclusion 6 State Constitutions and the Interaction between Formal Amendment and Unwritten Commitments -- Introduction -- I Public Finance Limitations -- A Origins and Early Enforcement of Public Finance Limitations -- B The Informal Revision of Public Finance Limitations -- C Explanations -- II Executive Reorganization -- A The Original Design of a Weak Executive -- B Statutory Empowerment of the Governor -- C Explanations -- III State Constitutional Rights -- A The Dormancy of Judicially Enforced State Constitutional Rights -- B The New Judicial Federalism -- C Explanations and Implications IV Conclusion -- But What Drives America's Unwritten State Constitutions? Summary How is the 'unwritten Constitution' amended? What is gained or lost by changing America's 'unwritten Constitution' with a written amendment? Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Constitutional amendments -- United States. Constitutional history -- United States. Customary law -- United States. Constitutional law -- United States -- Philosophy Constitutional amendments Constitutional history Constitutional law -- Philosophy Customary law United States Form Electronic book Author Williams, Ryan C Roznai, Yaniv ISBN 9781009246859 1009246852

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