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Back To Fundamentals: The Worsening Results Of Ignoring The Social Contract In Baltimore City, John Stinson
Back To Fundamentals: The Worsening Results Of Ignoring The Social Contract In Baltimore City, John Stinson
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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Sovereignty As Discourse, Robert Tsai
Sovereignty As Discourse, Robert Tsai
Robert L Tsai
This is a review of Howard Schweber's book, "The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism" (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Schweber argues that "the creation of a legitimate constitutional regime depends on a prior commitment to employ constitutional language, and that such a commitment is both the necessary and sufficient condition for constitution making." I critique the power and limits of this reformulated Lockean thesis, as well as Schweber's secondary claims that, for constitutional language to remain legitimate, it must increasingly become autonomous, specialized, and secular.