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Reflections Inspired By My Critics, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Reflections Inspired By My Critics, Philip Chase Bobbitt
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The crucial idea in constitutional law is legitimacy; the crucial idea in jurisprudence is justification.
For some time, the academic debate about U.S. constitutionalism has looked for justifications for our practices, believing this would confer legitimacy on them. In my work, I have endeavored to derive legitimacy from the practices themselves, reserving the task of justification for other purposes.
By showing the way in which legitimacy is established and maintained in a constitutional system like ours, I hoped to derive solutions to a number of classical questions, all of which, I believe, are at bottom questions about legitimacy and legitimation. …
From Sovereignty To Process: The Jurisprudence Of Federalism After Garcia, Andrzej Rapaczynski
From Sovereignty To Process: The Jurisprudence Of Federalism After Garcia, Andrzej Rapaczynski
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On February 19, 1985, the Supreme Court, in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, overruled its 1976 decision in National League of Cities v. Usery. Although the continued vitality of National League of Cities had been in question in recent years, the Court's abrupt repudiation of the very principle announced in that case is an event of considerable significance, beyond showing, one more time, that the rule of stare decisis has a limited application in the Court's modern constitutional adjudication. Garcia's importance lies, above all, in revealing the absence of anything approaching a well elaborated theory of federalism that …