Constitutionalism and Democracy

The Supreme Court Power of Judicial Review v. We the People
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-66905-7
Verlag: Birkhäuser

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

This book examines the power of judicial review exercised by the United States Supreme Court and places legal analysis in conversation with democratic theory and popular sovereignty. It considers how constitutional structure constrains amendment and major institutional change, and asks whether the Constitution should be preserved through originalist interpretation or understood as a living document capable of adaptation. The book argues for reconsidering the Supreme Court’s role in judicial review and for modernizing American political institutions.

Using an interdisciplinary method that combines constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy, political science, and democratic theory, the book addresses readers interested in the relationship between constitutionalism, institutional design, and popular government.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skouras, George

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Verfassungsgeschichte, Verfassungsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Landscape and Implanting an Experimental Democracy in the New World.- English Constitutional History.- Early American Constitutionalism and the Supreme Court Usurpation of Judicial Review Power.- The Era of Economic Due Process---Social Darwinism (Property, Monopoly, Corporatism).- The Idea of Democracy and Congressional Government: The Reality and the Fiction.- The Jurisprudence of Judicial Review and Democracy: History, Intention, and Finality.- Democratic Institutions Within Our Civilizational Time: History, Nature and Contingency.- Conclusion: The Horizon and Limits of Human Nature, Democratic Roads and Constitutionalism.

Über Autor(innen)

George Skouras is an independent scholar and author whose work spans constitutionalism, jurisprudence, democratic theory, American history, political science, and the philosophy of law. He holds a J.D. from Rutgers Law School, an M.A. in Political Science from New York University, and an M.Phil. in Political Science from The New School for Social Research. His scholarship examines constitutional government, judicial review, democratic governance, political economy, legal history, telecommunications regulation, digital bottlenecks, homeowners’ associations, and the democratic commons. Earlier research addressed land-use law and the regulation of toxic and hazardous substances.