Neal Devins / Keith Whittington

Congress and the Constitution

Herausgeber: Devins, Neal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336129
• ISBN-10: 082233612X
• Artikelnr.: 22320587

Autorenporträt

Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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