Is the American constitution obsolete?
By: Thomas J. Main
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781594609589
Subjects: Judicial review; Law and legislation; Constitutional law; Slavery; Electoral college
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Veneration and criticism of the American Constitution / Thomas J. Main; title: Democracy and the constitution / Daniel Lazare; title: We should preserve, protect, and defend the constitution-not trash it / Jeremy Rabkin; title: Slavery's constitution : the creation of America's covenant with death / Paul Finkelman; title: Planned obsolescence? the constitution and slavery / Mark A. Graber; title: Why the U.S. needs direct election of the president / George C. Edwards III; title: The electoral college : mend it, don't end it / Larry A. Sabato; title: Thinking about "gridlock" / Sanford Levinson; title: Does the constitution encourage gridlock? / R. Shep Melnick; title: Against judicial review / Mark Tushnet; title: In defense of judicial review / Stephen Macedo; title: The imperial presidency, or "who doesn't belong and why?": Lincoln, FDR, Bush 43 and Obama / Richard M. Pious; title: Vindicating the presidency in a time of terror / Marc Landy.