Constitutional stupidities, constitutional tragedies
By: edited by William N. Eskridge and Sanford Levinson.
Contributors: Eskridge, William N.; Levinson, Sanford, 1941-; Murphy Institute of Political Economy.
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference sponsored by Tulane University's Murphy Institute on March 1994  and at a follow-up symposium at the Law and Interpretation Section of the American Association of Law Schools.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional accident waiting to happen / Akhil Reed Amar; title: Parlor games / Philip Bobbitt; title: An agenda for constitutional reform / Steven G. Calabresi; title: "Clause and effect" : an imagined conversation with Sanford Levinson / Lief Carter; title: The one senator, one vote clauses / William N. Eskridge; title: Our (almost) perfect Constitution / Daniel A. Farber; title: Unnecessary and unintelligible / Mark Graber; title: The nominee is; title: Article V / Stephen M. Griffin; title: Natural aristocracy? / Randall Kennedy; title: "Neither force nor will" / L.H. Larue; title: Presidential elections and constitutional stupidities / Sanford Levinson; title: The presidential age requirement and public policy agenda-setting / Matthew D. Michael; title: The last centrifugal force / Robert F. Nagel; title: Someone should have told Spiro Agnew / Michael Stokes Paulsen; title: Old people and good behavior / L.A. Powe; title: Divided suffrage / Jeffrey Rosen; title: The constitution of fear / Frederick Schauer; title: Criminal procedure as the servant of politics / Louis Michael Seidman; title: Our unconstitutional senate / Suzanna Sherry; title: How to violate the Constitution without really trying : lessons from the repeal of Prohibition to the Balanced budget amendment / Laurence H. Tribe; title: The whole thing / Mark Tushnet; title: How stupid can a Coasean constitution be? / William N. Eskridge and Sanford Levinson; title: Constitutional tragedies and giving refuge to the devil / Larry Alexander; title: The meaning of constitutional tragedy / J.M. Balkin; title: The tragic case of capital punishment / Gerard V. Bradley; title: Constitutional tragedies : the dark side of judgment / Rebecca L. Brown; title: Good constitutions and bad choices / Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager; title: Jocasta undone : constitutional courts in the midst of life and death / Marie A. Failinger; title: Constitutional tragedy in dying : or whose tragedy is it anyway? / James E. Fleming; title: Dramatic jurisprudence / Gary Jacobsohn; title: Constitutional farce / Pamela S. Karlan and Daniel R. Ortiz; title: Constitutional merry-go-round : the first round tragedy, the second round farce / Theodore J. Lowi; title: Glamis yes, Cawdor yes; title: but king of Scotland? / Michael W. McConnell; title: Brown v. Board of Education / Earl M. Maltz; title: Tragedy and constitutional interpretation : the California Civil Rights Initiative / Robert Post; title: The meaning of blacks' fidelity to the Constitution / Dorothy E. Roberts; title: Tragedies under the Common Law Constitution / David A. Strauss; title: McCulloch v. Maryland / John Yoo; title: Antigone and Creon / William N. Eskridge and Sanford Levinson.