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Title: We the People: Foundations by Bruce Ackerman ISBN: 0-674-94841-6 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Something's Missing
Comment: Something's missing from this book. Maybe it's that Ackerman is not as incandescently deceptive .... No, Ackerman is not so fine a worker with the constitution. It's more like he's rummaging around in the cupboard, making a lot of noise about historical debates here and there, and big supreme court decisions that do or don't bear out some preferred value. By the middle of the book, you cease to care, and just wish he'd stop making noise. .... In summary, this is an example of what the Crits refer to as a "hard book" ....
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Historical Constitutional Analysis
Comment: Ackerman describes historically how we arrived at our current Constitutional jurisprudence. He compares the original Constitution with the changes arising out of Reconstruction and then out of the New Deal--emphasizing that those changes cannot be adequately described within the formal Article V ammendment process. We might wish history had gone otherwise--I know I often do--but he gives a framework to at least understand it.
This book is a major step forward in recogizing that the fundemental structures of American Constitutional law require both sound analytical models as well as rich historical context.
This is one of the handful of most thought-provoking and persuasive books I have read on the Constitutional process.
Rating: 1
Summary: This is a terrible book.
Comment: At times our constitutional jurisprudence has fundamentally changed without a constitutional amendment. Bruce Ackerman tries to expalin this. He offers the theory of a constitutional moment that occurs when the public makes it clear that it is time for a new constitutional way. The problem is that only Ackerman knows when that moment occurs. This arrogance does violence to serious and meaningful constitutional interpretation
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Title: We the People: Volume 2: Transformations by Bruce Ackerman ISBN: 0674003977 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
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Title: Democracy and Distrust by John Hart Ely ISBN: 0674196376 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1981 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Partial Constitution by Cass R. Sunstein, Cass R. Sustein ISBN: 067465479X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Derrick A. Bell, Derek Bell ISBN: 046500329X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations by Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry ISBN: 0226238083 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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