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The Amending Of The Federal Constitution, Lester Bernhardt Orfield
The Amending Of The Federal Constitution, Lester Bernhardt Orfield
Michigan Legal Studies Series
MOST treatises on constitutional law dispose of the federal amending clause in summary fashion. The commentators have thought fit to stress chiefly the division of authority between the federal government and the states. They have attached a high degree of significance to the dogma of separation of powers. A great deal of attention has been devoted to the doctrines of judicial review, the supremacy of the Federal Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The taxation and the commerce clauses have come in for their full share of consideration. In recent years extensive studies have been made of the due process …