Author: Zachary Courser
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between our present-day polarization and the design of the nation's Constitution. The provisions of our Constitution are like “parchment barriers”—fragile bulwarks intended to preserve liberty and promote self-government. To be effective, these barriers need to be respected and reinforced by government officials and ordinary citizens, both in law and in custom. This book asks whether today’s partisan polarization is threatening these constitutional provisions and thus our constitutional order. The nation's founders, clearly concerned about political division, designed the Constitution with numerous means for controlling factions, restraining majority rule, and preventing concentrations of power. In chapters that span the major institutions of American government, the authors of Parchment Barriers explore how partisans are pushing the limits of these constitutional restraints to achieve their policy goals and how the forces of majority faction are testing the boundaries the Constitution draws around democratic power. What, for instance, are the dangers of power being concentrated in the executive branch, displaced to the judiciary, or assumed by majority party leaders in Congress? How has partisan polarization affected the nature, size, and power of the administrative state? And why do political parties, rather than working to facilitate the constitutional order as envisioned by James Madison, now chafe against its limits on majority rule? Parchment Barriers considers the implications of polarization for policy, governance, and the health of American democracy.
Parchment Barriers
Author: Zachary Courser
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between our present-day polarization and the design of the nation's Constitution. The provisions of our Constitution are like “parchment barriers”—fragile bulwarks intended to preserve liberty and promote self-government. To be effective, these barriers need to be respected and reinforced by government officials and ordinary citizens, both in law and in custom. This book asks whether today’s partisan polarization is threatening these constitutional provisions and thus our constitutional order. The nation's founders, clearly concerned about political division, designed the Constitution with numerous means for controlling factions, restraining majority rule, and preventing concentrations of power. In chapters that span the major institutions of American government, the authors of Parchment Barriers explore how partisans are pushing the limits of these constitutional restraints to achieve their policy goals and how the forces of majority faction are testing the boundaries the Constitution draws around democratic power. What, for instance, are the dangers of power being concentrated in the executive branch, displaced to the judiciary, or assumed by majority party leaders in Congress? How has partisan polarization affected the nature, size, and power of the administrative state? And why do political parties, rather than working to facilitate the constitutional order as envisioned by James Madison, now chafe against its limits on majority rule? Parchment Barriers considers the implications of polarization for policy, governance, and the health of American democracy.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between our present-day polarization and the design of the nation's Constitution. The provisions of our Constitution are like “parchment barriers”—fragile bulwarks intended to preserve liberty and promote self-government. To be effective, these barriers need to be respected and reinforced by government officials and ordinary citizens, both in law and in custom. This book asks whether today’s partisan polarization is threatening these constitutional provisions and thus our constitutional order. The nation's founders, clearly concerned about political division, designed the Constitution with numerous means for controlling factions, restraining majority rule, and preventing concentrations of power. In chapters that span the major institutions of American government, the authors of Parchment Barriers explore how partisans are pushing the limits of these constitutional restraints to achieve their policy goals and how the forces of majority faction are testing the boundaries the Constitution draws around democratic power. What, for instance, are the dangers of power being concentrated in the executive branch, displaced to the judiciary, or assumed by majority party leaders in Congress? How has partisan polarization affected the nature, size, and power of the administrative state? And why do political parties, rather than working to facilitate the constitutional order as envisioned by James Madison, now chafe against its limits on majority rule? Parchment Barriers considers the implications of polarization for policy, governance, and the health of American democracy.
The Framers and Fundamental Rights
Author: Robert A. Licht
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844737881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with those of our Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844737881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with those of our Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.
Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights
Author: Jack N. Rakove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political rights
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political rights
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
From Parchment to Power
Author: Robert A. Goldwin
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844740133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Examines how James Madison's efforts to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution helped save the American government from the problems that were threatening acceptance of the Constitution.
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844740133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Examines how James Madison's efforts to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution helped save the American government from the problems that were threatening acceptance of the Constitution.
The Federalist
Author: George Wescott Carey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
""Throughout this scrupulously researched interpretation of The Federalist papers, Carey provides a glimpse of our Republic's original design. He shows us what kind of federal union The Federalist's authors had in mind, and indicates how we have strayed from their intent." Paul Gottfried, National Review." --Contratapa.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
""Throughout this scrupulously researched interpretation of The Federalist papers, Carey provides a glimpse of our Republic's original design. He shows us what kind of federal union The Federalist's authors had in mind, and indicates how we have strayed from their intent." Paul Gottfried, National Review." --Contratapa.
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
Author: Ronald J. Pestritto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780742515178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Examines the political principles of Woodrow Wilson that influenced his presidency and the impact he had on United States and the progressive movement.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780742515178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Examines the political principles of Woodrow Wilson that influenced his presidency and the impact he had on United States and the progressive movement.
How Constitutional Rights Matter
Author: Adam Chilton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190871458
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Does constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice? Drawing on statistical analyses, survey experiments, and case studies from around the world, this book argues that enforcing constitutional rights is not easy, but that some rights are harder to repress than others. First, enshrining rights in constitutions does not automatically ensure that those rights will be respected. For rights to matter, rights violations need to be politically costly. But this is difficult to accomplish for unconnected groups of citizens. Second, some rights are easier to enforce than others, especially those with natural constituencies that can mobilize for their enforcement. This is the case for rights that are practiced by and within organizations, such as the rights to religious freedom, to unionize, and to form political parties. Because religious groups, trade unions and parties are highly organized, they are well-equipped to use the constitution to resist rights violations. As a result, these rights are systematically associated with better practices. By contrast, rights that are practiced on an individual basis, such as free speech or the prohibition of torture, often lack natural constituencies to enforce them, which makes it easier for governments to violate these rights. Third, even highly organized groups armed with the constitution may not be able to stop governments dedicated to rights-repression. When constitutional rights are enforced by dedicated organizations, they are thus best understood as speed bumps that slow down attempts at repression. An important contribution to comparative constitutional law, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the spread of constitutional rights, and their enforcement, around the world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190871458
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Does constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice? Drawing on statistical analyses, survey experiments, and case studies from around the world, this book argues that enforcing constitutional rights is not easy, but that some rights are harder to repress than others. First, enshrining rights in constitutions does not automatically ensure that those rights will be respected. For rights to matter, rights violations need to be politically costly. But this is difficult to accomplish for unconnected groups of citizens. Second, some rights are easier to enforce than others, especially those with natural constituencies that can mobilize for their enforcement. This is the case for rights that are practiced by and within organizations, such as the rights to religious freedom, to unionize, and to form political parties. Because religious groups, trade unions and parties are highly organized, they are well-equipped to use the constitution to resist rights violations. As a result, these rights are systematically associated with better practices. By contrast, rights that are practiced on an individual basis, such as free speech or the prohibition of torture, often lack natural constituencies to enforce them, which makes it easier for governments to violate these rights. Third, even highly organized groups armed with the constitution may not be able to stop governments dedicated to rights-repression. When constitutional rights are enforced by dedicated organizations, they are thus best understood as speed bumps that slow down attempts at repression. An important contribution to comparative constitutional law, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the spread of constitutional rights, and their enforcement, around the world.
James Madison
Author: Robert Allen Rutland
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback, James Madison: The Founding Father is a lively portrait of the man who essentially fathered our constitutional guarantees of civil and religious liberty. Focusing on the role Madison played at the Continental Congress and in each stage of the formation of the American Republic, Robert Allen Rutland also covers Madison's relationship with his beloved wife, Dolley, his fifty-year friendship with Thomas Jefferson, and his years as a respected elder statesman after serving as secretary of state and fourth president of the United States.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback, James Madison: The Founding Father is a lively portrait of the man who essentially fathered our constitutional guarantees of civil and religious liberty. Focusing on the role Madison played at the Continental Congress and in each stage of the formation of the American Republic, Robert Allen Rutland also covers Madison's relationship with his beloved wife, Dolley, his fifty-year friendship with Thomas Jefferson, and his years as a respected elder statesman after serving as secretary of state and fourth president of the United States.
The Spirit of the Constitution
Author: Robert A. Goldwin
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844737201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
These conversations are a nontechnical, readable, and engaging presentation of the philosophic side of the Constitution. In the free and wide-ranging discussions in this volume, distinguished jurists, journalists, and scholars strive to capture the unspoken principles of the Constitution, its elusive but compelling spirit.
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844737201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
These conversations are a nontechnical, readable, and engaging presentation of the philosophic side of the Constitution. In the free and wide-ranging discussions in this volume, distinguished jurists, journalists, and scholars strive to capture the unspoken principles of the Constitution, its elusive but compelling spirit.
Reflections on Garcia and Its Implications for Federalism
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This report was approved by the Commission on December 4, 1985, as an Information Report.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This report was approved by the Commission on December 4, 1985, as an Information Report.