Devins / Whittington / Graber Congress and the Constitution

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8711-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 331 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional conflicts

Essays contest notion of the absolute preeminence of judicial review in constitutional interpretation, analyzing the role of Congress as a constitutional interpreter and responsible constitutional agent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Devins, Neal

Whittington, Keith

Graber, Mark A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington 1

Prolegomena for a Sampler: Extrajudicial Interpretation of the Constitution, 1789–1861 / David P. Currie 18

Congressional Attitudes toward Constitutional Interpretation / Bruce G. Peabody 39

Constitutional Analysis by Congressional Staff Agencies / Louis Fisher 64

Hearing about the Constitution in Congressional Committees / Keith E. Whittington 87

The Federal Appointments Process as Constitutional Interpretation / Michael J. Gerhardt 110

Lawyers in Congress / John C. Yoo 131

Congressional Responses to Judicial Review / J. Mitchell Pickerill 151

Court, Congress, and Civil Rights / Michael J. Klarman 173

Quasi-Constitutional Law: The Rise of Super-Statutes / William N. Eskridge Jr. and John Ferejohn 198

Congressional Fact Finding and the Scope of Judicial Review / Neal Devins 220

Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress / Elizabeth Garrett and Adrian Vermeule 242

Evaluating Congressional Constitutional Interpretation: Some Criteria and Two Informal Case Studies / Mark Tushnet 269

Can Congress Be Trusted with the Constitution? The Effects of Incentives and Procedures / Barbara Sinclair 293

About the Contributors 313

Index 315

Über Autor(innen)

Neal Devins is Goodrich Professor of Law, Professor of Government, and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary School of Law. Among his books are Shaping Constitutional Values: The Supreme Court, Elected Government, and the Abortion Dispute; The Democratic Constitution (coauthored with Louis Fisher); and A Year at the Supreme Court (coedited with Davison Douglas and published by Duke University Press).Keith E. Whittington is Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning and Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review.