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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
A Process-Based Approach To Presidential Exit, Mark Seidenfeld
A Process-Based Approach To Presidential Exit, Mark Seidenfeld
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Prophylactic Redistricting? Congress's Section 5 Power And The New Equal Protection Right To Vote, Michael T. Morley
Prophylactic Redistricting? Congress's Section 5 Power And The New Equal Protection Right To Vote, Michael T. Morley
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No abstract provided.
Populist Constitutions, David Landau
Populist Constitutions, David Landau
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This Essay draws on recent academic definitions of populism and recent examples of its use in order to show that there is an affinity between populism and widespread constitutional change. It argues that populists use constitutional change to carry out three functions: deconstructing the old institutional order, developing a substantive project rooted in a critique of that order, and consolidating power in the hands of populists. Thus, access to the tools of constitutional change may accentuate both the promise of populism as a corrective to stagnating liberal democracies and the threat that it poses to those constitutional orders. I also …
Tiered Constitutional Design, David Landau, Rosalind Dixon
Tiered Constitutional Design, David Landau, Rosalind Dixon
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Scholarship has posited two models of constitutionalism. One is short, abstract, and rigid, like the United States Constitution. The other is lengthy, detailed, and flexible, like the constitutions found in many U.S. states and in many other countries around the world. This Article argues that there is a descriptively common and normatively attractive third model: tiered constitutional design. A tiered design aims to combine the virtues of rigidity and flexibility by creating different rules of constitutional amendment for different parts of the constitution. Most provisions are made fairly easy to change, but certain articles or principles are given higher levels …
After Sex, Courtney Megan Cahill