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Congress and the Constitution / Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Devins, Neal.
Whittington, Keith E.
Series:
Constitutional conflicts.
Constitutional conflicts
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States. Congress--Powers and duties.
United States.
United States. Constitution.
Constitutional law--United States.
Constitutional law.
Law--United States--Interpretation and construction.
Law.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (333 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Language Note:
English
System Details:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Prolegomena for a sampler : extrajudicial interpretation of the Constitution, 1789-1861 / David P. Currie
Congressional attitudes toward constitutional interpretation / Bruce G. Peabody
Constitutional analysis by congressional staff agencies / Louis Fisher
Hearing about the Constitution in congressional committees / Keith E. Whittington
The federal appointments process as constitutional interpretation / Michael J. Gerhardt
Lawyers in Congress / John C. Yoo
Congressional responses to judicial review / J. Mitchell Pickerill
Court, Congress, and civil rights / Michael J. Klarman
Quasi-constitutional law : the rise of super-statutes / William N. Eskridge, Jr. and John Ferejohn
Congressional fact finding and the scope of judicial review / Neal Devins
Institutional design of a Thayerian Congress / Elizabeth Garrett and Adrian Vermeule
Evaluating congressional constitutional interpretation : some criteria and two informal case studies / Mark Tushnet
Can congress be trusted with the constitution? : the effects of incentives and procedures / Barbara Sinclair.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780822387114
0822387115
OCLC:
1153776951

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