Responding to Imperfection - The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 24, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780691025704
Subjects: Comparative law; Constitution: government & the state; United States; Law; Politics / Current Events; Civil Procedure; Constitutional; Legal System; Law / Constitutional; Political Science and International Relations; Constitutional amendments
First sentence: ON JUNE 11, 1787, George Mason of Virginia opened the discussion of constitutional amendment at the constitutional convention in Philadelphia with a forthright statement that "the plan now to be formed will certainly be defective, as the Confederation has been found on trial to be.