Securing constitutional democracy
Subtitle: the case of autonomy
By: James E. Fleming.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Civil rights -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States; Democracy; Liberty
Description: "In this timely book, James Fleming argues that the right to privacy or autonomy should be grounded in a theory of securing constitutional democracy. His framework seeks to secure the basic liberties that are preconditions for deliberative democracy - to allow citizens to deliberate about the institutions and policies of their government - as well as deliberative autonomy - to enable citizens to deliberate about the conduct of their own lives. Together, Fleming shows, these two preconditions can afford everyone the status of free and equal citizenship in our morally pluralistic constitutional democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Securing constitutional democracy; title: Beyond process-perfecting theories of reinforcing representative democracy; title: Beyond process-perfecting theories of securing deliberative democracy; title: An outline for a constitution-perfecting theory of securing constitutional democracy; title: Securing deliberative autonomy; title: Reconceiving the due process inquiry in terms of significance for deliberative autonomy : between Scalia and Charybdis; title: Constitutional interpretation in circumstances of moral disagreement and political conflict; title: Adjusting, preserving, and perfecting the scheme of constitutional democracy; title: Securing the family of basic liberties as a whole; title: Securing constitutional democracy in war and crisis; title: Constitutional imperfections and the pursuit of happy endings : perfecting our imperfect constitution.