Journal Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1875 ...
Author : Missouri. Constitutional Convention
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Constitutional conventions
ISBN :
Author : Missouri. Constitutional Convention
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Constitutional conventions
ISBN :
Author : Richard M. Fulton
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0826219039
This approachable, valuable exposition on Missouri government fills a significant gap in the literature on the interpretation, use, and operation of state constitutions. The book provides a sweeping look at the constitutional foundations of the processes of Missouri government and places Missouri within the context of our larger federal system. The essential elements of government outlined in the constitution are introduced, and then analysis and interpretation of each document's articles is covered.
Author : Missouri. Constitutional Convention
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1820
Category : Constitutional conventions
ISBN :
Author : Michael F. Conlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108495273
Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
Author : Jack M. Balkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 0197530990
"America's constitutional system evolves through the interplay between three cycles: the rise and fall of dominant political parties, the waxing and waning of political polarization, and alternating episodes of constitutional rot and constitutional renewal. America's politics seems especially fraught today because we are nearing the end of the Republican Party's long political dominance, at the height of a long cycle of political polarization, and suffering from an advanced case of "constitutional rot." Constitutional rot is the historical process through which republics become increasingly less representative and less devoted to the common good. Caused by increasing economic inequality and loss of trust, constitutional rot seriously threatens the constitutional system. But America has been through these cycles before, and will get through them again. America is in a Second Gilded Age slowly moving toward a second Progressive Era, during which polarization will eventually recede. The same cycles shape the work of the federal courts and theories about constitutional interpretation. They explain why political parties have switched sides on judicial review not once but twice in the twentieth century. Polarization and constitutional rot alter the political supports for judicial review, make fights over judicial appointments especially bitter, and encourage constitutional hardball. The Constitution ordinarily relies on the judiciary to protect democracy and to prevent political corruption and self-entrenching behavior. But when constitutional rot is advanced, the Supreme Court is likely to be ineffective and may even make matters worse. Courts cannot save the country from constitutional rot; only political mobilization can"--
Author : Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Executive departments
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Law
ISBN :
Vols. 65-96 include "Central law journal's international law list."
Author : Joseph Postell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826273785
The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by unelected officials in agencies where legislative, executive, and judicial powers are combined. This threatens constitutionalism and the rule of law. This book examines the history of administrative power in America and argues that modern administrative law has failed to protect the principles of American constitutionalism as effectively as earlier approaches to regulation and administration.
Author : Goodwin Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199752834
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.
Author : Mark A. Graber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139457071
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values, and did not offer a vision of the good society. In order to form a 'more perfect union' with slaveholders, late-eighteenth-century citizens fashioned a constitution that plainly compelled some injustices and was silent or ambiguous on other questions of fundamental right. This constitutional relationship could survive only as long as a bisectional consensus was required to resolve all constitutional questions not settled in 1787. Dred Scott challenges persons committed to human freedom to determine whether antislavery northerners should have provided more accommodations for slavery than were constitutionally strictly necessary or risked the enormous destruction of life and property that preceded Lincoln's new birth of freedom.