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The People Themselves
Larry D. Kramer
其他書名
Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
出版Oxford University Press, 2004-06-10
主題Law / ConstitutionalPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyHistory / United States / GeneralPolitical Science / General
ISBN01980378219780198037828
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nhyIC1mj_ZIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.