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Congress and the Constitution / Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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