The People Themselves : Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
by
Kramer
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0195306457
ISBN-13
9780195306453
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 12th, 2006
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
584 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.10 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Politics & governmentConstitutional & administrative law
Ksh 7,100.00
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This book makes the radical claim that rather than interpreting the Constitution from on high, the Court should be reflecting popular will-or the wishes of the people themselves.
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.
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