In Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism, Michelman explains why constitutional debates persist in modern day democracies. Through the lens of John Rawls' seminal work Political Liberalism, Michelman responds to the problems governments of constitutional-democratic societies face from deep-lying disagreement among citizens by presenting them with Rawls' solution: an accepted constitution.
In Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism, Michelman explains why constitutional debates persist in modern day democracies. Through the lens of John Rawls' seminal work Political Liberalism, Michelman responds to the problems governments of constitutional-democratic societies face from deep-lying disagreement among citizens by presenting them with Rawls' solution: an accepted constitution.
Frank I. Michelman is the Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past Co-Director of the annual Prague Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, and has served on the Board of Directors of the United States Association of Constitutional Law and the National Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society. In 2005, Professor Michelman was awarded the American Philosophical Society's Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence and, in 2004, the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Abbreviations * Foreword * Introduction * PART I. JUSTIFICATION-BY-CONSTITUTION * Chapter 1. The Constitution as Procedural Recourse: Rawls's "Liberal Principle of Legitimacy" * Chapter 2. A Fixation Thesis and a Secondary Proceduralization: Constitution as Positive Law * Chapter 3. Constitutional Essentials. A Singularity of Reason, or a Space of Reasonability? * Chapter 4. Constitutional Law and Human Rights: The Call to Civility * Chapter 5. Constitutional Fidelity: Of Courts, Citizens, and Time * Chapter 6. A Realistic Utopia? * PART II. "THE CRITERION OF RECIPROCITY" * Chapter 7. Legitimacy: Procedural Compliance or Ethical Attitude? * Chapter 8. Offsets to Proceduralism * PART III. SOME CHRONIC DEBATES * Chapter 9. Constitutional Application: Between Will and Reason * Chapter 10. Justification-By-Constitution, Economic Guarantees, and the Rise of Weak-Form Review * Chapter 11. Judicial Restraint (and Judicial Supremacy) * Chapter 12. Legal Formalism and The Rule of Law * Chapter 13. Constitutional Rights and "Private" Legal Relations * Chapter 14. Liberal Tolerance to Liberal Collapse? * Bibliography
* List of Abbreviations * Foreword * Introduction * PART I. JUSTIFICATION-BY-CONSTITUTION * Chapter 1. The Constitution as Procedural Recourse: Rawls's "Liberal Principle of Legitimacy" * Chapter 2. A Fixation Thesis and a Secondary Proceduralization: Constitution as Positive Law * Chapter 3. Constitutional Essentials. A Singularity of Reason, or a Space of Reasonability? * Chapter 4. Constitutional Law and Human Rights: The Call to Civility * Chapter 5. Constitutional Fidelity: Of Courts, Citizens, and Time * Chapter 6. A Realistic Utopia? * PART II. "THE CRITERION OF RECIPROCITY" * Chapter 7. Legitimacy: Procedural Compliance or Ethical Attitude? * Chapter 8. Offsets to Proceduralism * PART III. SOME CHRONIC DEBATES * Chapter 9. Constitutional Application: Between Will and Reason * Chapter 10. Justification-By-Constitution, Economic Guarantees, and the Rise of Weak-Form Review * Chapter 11. Judicial Restraint (and Judicial Supremacy) * Chapter 12. Legal Formalism and The Rule of Law * Chapter 13. Constitutional Rights and "Private" Legal Relations * Chapter 14. Liberal Tolerance to Liberal Collapse? * Bibliography
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