The least examined branch
Subtitle: the role of legislatures in the constitutional state
By: edited by Richard W. Bauman, Tsvi Kahana.
Contributors: Bauman, Richard W.; Kahana, Tsvi, 1967-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780521859547; 9780521676823
Subjects: Legislation; Legislative bodies; Constitutional law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New ways of looking at old institutions / Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana; title: pt. 1. Legislatures and democratic theory. Principles of legislation / Jeremy Waldron ; An exact epitome of the people / Russell Hardin ; Political accountability, proxy accountability, and the democratic legitimacy of legislatures / Jane S. Schacter ; Constitutionalism, trade legislation, and "democracy" / Chantal Thomas; title: pt. 2. Legislating and deliberating in the democratic legislature. Legislative judgment and the enlarged mentality: taking religious perspectives / Jennifer Nedelsky ; Should we value legislative integrity? / Andrei Marmor ; Nondelegation principles / Cass R. Sunstein ; Vox populi: populism, the legislative process and the Canadian Constitution / Harry Arthurs; title: pt. 3. Constitution-making by legislatures: the explicit version. Legislatures as constituent assemblies / Jon Elster ;  Legislatures and the phases and components of constitutionalism / Ruth Gavison ; Legislatures and constitutional agnosticism / Patricia Hughes ; Constitutional amendments and the constitutional common law / Adrian Vermeule; title: pt. 4. Constitution-making by legislatures: the implicit version.  What do constitutions do that statutes don't (legally speaking)? / Frank I. Michelman ; Conditions for framework legislation / Elizabeth Garrett ; Super-statutes: the new American constitutionalism / William N. Eskridge, Jr. and John Ferejohn; title: pt. 5. Constitutional interpretation and application by the legislature. Interpretation in legislatures and courts: incentives and institutional design / Mark Tushnet ; Constitutional engagement "outside the courts" (and "inside the legislature"): reflections on professional expertise and the ability to engage in constitutional interpretation / Sanford Levinson ; Legislatures as constitutional interpretation: another dialogue / Andrée Lajoie, Cécile Bergada and Éric Gélineau ; The Constitution and congressional committees: 1971; title: 2000 / Keith E. Whittington, Neal Devins, and Hutch Hicken; title: pt. 6. Is legislative constitutionalism possible?. Democratic decision-making as the first principle of contemporary constitutionalism / Jeremy Webber ; Legislative constitutionalism in a system of judicial supremacy / Daniel A. Farber ; Between supremacy and exclusivity / Owen Fiss ; Legislatures as rule-followers / Frederick Schauer ; Popular revolution or popular constitutionalism?: reflections on the constitutional politics of Quebec Secession / Sujit Choudhry; title: pt. 7. The legislature in dialogue: domestic and international contexts. Disobeying parliament?: privative clauses and the rule of law / David Dyzenhaus ; Look who's talking now: dialogue theory and the return to democracy / Andrew Petter ; An international community of legislatures? / Daphne Barak-Erez ; Legislatures in dialogue with one another: dissent, decisions, and the global polity / Heather K. Gerken.