Parchment Barriers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parchment Barriers write by Zachary Courser. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Parchment Barriers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between our present-day polarization and the design of the nation's Constitution. The provisions of our Constitution are like “parchment barriers”—fragile bulwarks intended to preserve liberty and promote self-government. To be effective, these barriers need to be respected and reinforced by government officials and ordinary citizens, both in law and in custom. This book asks whether today’s partisan polarization is threatening these constitutional provisions and thus our constitutional order. The nation's founders, clearly concerned about political division, designed the Constitution with numerous means for controlling factions, restraining majority rule, and preventing concentrations of power. In chapters that span the major institutions of American government, the authors of Parchment Barriers explore how partisans are pushing the limits of these constitutional restraints to achieve their policy goals and how the forces of majority faction are testing the boundaries the Constitution draws around democratic power. What, for instance, are the dangers of power being concentrated in the executive branch, displaced to the judiciary, or assumed by majority party leaders in Congress? How has partisan polarization affected the nature, size, and power of the administrative state? And why do political parties, rather than working to facilitate the constitutional order as envisioned by James Madison, now chafe against its limits on majority rule? Parchment Barriers considers the implications of polarization for policy, governance, and the health of American democracy.
The Framers and Fundamental Rights
The Framers and Fundamental Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Framers and Fundamental Rights write by Robert A. Licht. This book was released on 1991. The Framers and Fundamental Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with those of our Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.
Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights
Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights write by Jack N. Rakove. This book was released on 1991. Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Parchment to Power
From Parchment to Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Parchment to Power write by Robert A. Goldwin. This book was released on 1997. From Parchment to Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines how James Madison's efforts to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution helped save the American government from the problems that were threatening acceptance of the Constitution.
How Constitutional Rights Matter
How Constitutional Rights Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Constitutional Rights Matter write by Adam Chilton. This book was released on 2020. How Constitutional Rights Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice? Drawing on statistical analyses, survey experiments, and case studies from around the world, this book argues that enforcing constitutional rights is not easy, but that some rights are harder to repress than others. First, enshrining rights in constitutions does not automatically ensure that those rights will be respected. For rights to matter, rights violations need to be politically costly. But this is difficult to accomplish for unconnected groups of citizens. Second, some rights are easier to enforce than others, especially those with natural constituencies that can mobilize for their enforcement. This is the case for rights that are practiced by and within organizations, such as the rights to religious freedom, to unionize, and to form political parties. Because religious groups, trade unions and parties are highly organized, they are well-equipped to use the constitution to resist rights violations. As a result, these rights are systematically associated with better practices. By contrast, rights that are practiced on an individual basis, such as free speech or the prohibition of torture, often lack natural constituencies to enforce them, which makes it easier for governments to violate these rights. Third, even highly organized groups armed with the constitution may not be able to stop governments dedicated to rights-repression. When constitutional rights are enforced by dedicated organizations, they are thus best understood as speed bumps that slow down attempts at repression. An important contribution to comparative constitutional law, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the spread of constitutional rights, and their enforcement, around the world.
