Framed
Subtitle: America's 51 constitutions and the crisis of governance
By: Sanford Levinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780199890750
Subjects: States; Federal government; Constitutional law; Separation of powers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of compromise and constitutions; title: What is the pint of preambles?; title: How does a "republican form of government" differ from "democracy"?; title: Elections and a republican form of government; title: Bicameralism; title: If two opinions are good, is a third opinion (with the power of most of the time absolutely to kill the decision of the first two opinion-makers) even better?; title: Presidentialism (and "gubernatorialism"); title: So what, precisely, does one get, as a constitutional matter, upon being elected president?; title: Presidential duration in office, the possibility of impeachment, and the role of the vice president; title: Divided government; title: How "independent" a judiciary do we really want?; title: On the judiciary (and supreme court) as guardian of the constitution; title: Federalism; title: Amendment; title: Emergency powers.