Tulis / Macedo The Limits of Constitutional Democracy

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3679-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: The University Center for Human Values Series

Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What is constitutional democracy? When does it succeed or fail? Can constitutional democracies conduct war? Can they preserve their values and institutions while addressing new forms of global interdependence? The authors gathered here interrogate constitutional democracy's meaning in order to illuminate its future.

The book examines key themes--the issues of constitutional failure; the problem of emergency power and whether constitutions should be suspended when emergencies arise; the dilemmas faced when constitutions provide and restrict executive power during wartime; and whether constitutions can adapt to such globalization challenges as immigration, religious resurgence, and nuclear arms proliferation.

In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sotirios Barber, Joseph Bessette, Mark Brandon, Daniel Deudney, Christopher Eisgruber, James Fleming, William Harris II, Ran Hirschl, Gary Jacobsohn, Benjamin Kleinerman, Jan-Werner Müller, Kim Scheppele, Rogers Smith, Adrian Vermeule, and Mariah Zeisberg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tulis, Jeffrey K.

Macedo, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Introduction. Constitutional Boundaries by Jeffrey K. Tulis and Stephen Macedo 1

Part I: What Is Constitutional Failure? 11

Chapter 1: Constitutional Failure: Ultimately Attitudinal by Sotirios A. Barber 13

Chapter 2: Successful Failures of the American Constitution by James E. Fleming 29

Chapter 3: The Disharmonic Constitution by Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn 47

Chapter 4: Constitution of Failure The Architectonics of a Well-Founded Constitutional Order by William F. Harris II 66

Part II: How Can Constitutional Democracy Contend with Emergency 89

Chapter 5: "In the Name of National Security" Executive Discretion and Congressional Legislation in the Civil War and World War I by Benjamin A. Kleinerman 91

Chapter 6: The Possibility of Constitutional Statesmanship by Jeffrey K. Tulis 112

Chapter 7: Exceptions That Prove the Rule Embedding Emergency Government in Everyday Constitutional Life by Kim Lane Scheppele 124

Part III: How Can Constitutional Democracy Contend with War? 155

Chapter 8: The Glorious Commander in Chief by Adrian Vermeule 157

Chapter 9: The Relational Conception of War Powers by Mariah Zeisberg 168

Chapter 10: Confronting War Rethinking Jackson's Concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer by Joseph M. Bessette 194

Chapter 11: War and Constitutional Change by Mark E. Brandon 217

Part IV: How Can Constitutional Democracy Contend with Globalization 237

Chapter 12: Three Constitutionalist Reponses to Globalization by Jan -Werner Muller 239

Chapter 13: Constitutionalism in a Theocratic World by Ran Hirschl 256

Chapter 14: Constitutional Democracies, Coercion, and Obligations to Include by Rogers M. Smith 280

Chapter 15: Omniviolence, Arms Control, and Limited Government by Daniel Deudney 297

Conclusion: Constitutional Engagement and Its Limits by Christopher L. Eisgruber 317

List of Contributors 329

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey K. Tulis teaches political science at the University of Texas, Austin. His books include The Rhetorical Presidency (Princeton). Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His numerous books include Democracy at Risk.