Democracy and Legal ChangeCambridge University Press, 2007 M04 9 Since ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity. Against those who would defend the use of 'entrenchment clauses' to protect key constitutional provisions from revision, Schwartzberg seeks to demonstrate historically the strategic and even unjust purposes unamendable laws have typically served, and to highlight the regrettable consequences that entrenchment may have for democracies today. Drawing on historical evidence, classical political theory, and contemporary constitutional and democratic theory, Democracy and Legal Change reexamines the relationship between democracy and the rule of law from a new, and often surprising, set of vantage points. |
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... argue that democrats have long had recourse to entrenchment – both in response to their own anxiety about the consequences of legal change and because of particular interests in protecting certain laws against revision – but that these ...
... argue that democrats have long had recourse to entrenchment – both in response to their own anxiety about the consequences of legal change and because of particular interests in protecting certain laws against revision – but that these ...
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... argued that these clauses may not specify. 3 As I wrote these words, Senator Arlen Specter (R–PA) invoked the idea of “super-duper precedent” as a means of seeking to restrict the power of the Supreme Court to reverse itself on Roe v ...
... argued that these clauses may not specify. 3 As I wrote these words, Senator Arlen Specter (R–PA) invoked the idea of “super-duper precedent” as a means of seeking to restrict the power of the Supreme Court to reverse itself on Roe v ...
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... argued, expressio unius est exclusio alterius (“the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another”) is a well-established statutory and constitutional principle.7 Yet even if we are reluctant to adopt the nonexclusivity argument ...
... argued, expressio unius est exclusio alterius (“the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another”) is a well-established statutory and constitutional principle.7 Yet even if we are reluctant to adopt the nonexclusivity argument ...
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... argued, democracy would lack the stable core necessary to foreclose the possibility that authoritarianism could be imposed through democratic means – that is, a majority vote. Here, I refer to such arguments as relying on the “logic of ...
... argued, democracy would lack the stable core necessary to foreclose the possibility that authoritarianism could be imposed through democratic means – that is, a majority vote. Here, I refer to such arguments as relying on the “logic of ...
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... argue against them in this work. Peter Suber (1990) offers an important and fascinating discussion oflogical puzzles involving amendment and entrenchment; see also Ross (1969) and Da Silva (2004), among others, for the implications of ...
... argue against them in this work. Peter Suber (1990) offers an important and fascinating discussion oflogical puzzles involving amendment and entrenchment; see also Ross (1969) and Da Silva (2004), among others, for the implications of ...
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follow I present a series of historical accounts of the | 25 |
attractive democratic traits that are embodied by and reaffirmed | 29 |
immediately due to religious disputes that emerged in the late | 101 |
substantive reform would not occur until well into the nineteenth | 105 |
were ultimately interested in preserving their own sphere of | 111 |
Chapter Four | 115 |
the ability of the people to modify their constitution was | 118 |
primary value of entrenchment is as a means of bringing | 129 |
few today defend amendment on such grounds Indeed in the | 147 |
Chapter Five | 153 |
Chapter Two | 31 |
propensity to redirect in light of new information and to | 43 |
of law rather than popular sovereignty49 Yet as Josiah Ober | 64 |
commitment to flexibility which could easily have been jettisoned | 68 |
Chapter Three | 71 |
bulwark against tyranny as both Kelsen and later Rawls suggested | 158 |
entrenchment of the second reading and retained the malleability | 165 |
if it involves completely distorting the meaning of entrenched laws | 178 |
Chapter Six | 193 |
Habermas wishes to acknowledge is surely correct18 Our | 205 |
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