The constitution outside the courts and the pursuit of a good society: Thin constitutions and the good society

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1989-1997

  Sager, Lawrence G ^a  

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References (42)

1. Lawrence Sager, The Domain of Constitutional Justice, in Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations 235 (Larry Alexander ed., 1998); Lawrence G. Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes: Reflections on the Thinness of Constitutional Law, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 410 (1993) [hereinafter Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes]; Lawrence Gene Sager, Fair Measure: The Legal Status of Underenforced Constitutional Norms, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 1212 (1978).
2. Lawrence Sager, The Domain of Constitutional Justice, in Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations 235 (Larry Alexander ed., 1998); Lawrence G. Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes: Reflections on the Thinness of Constitutional Law, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 410 (1993) [hereinafter Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes]; Lawrence Gene Sager, Fair Measure: The Legal Status of Underenforced Constitutional Norms, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 1212 (1978).
3. Lawrence Sager, The Domain of Constitutional Justice, in Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations 235 (Larry Alexander ed., 1998); Lawrence G. Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes: Reflections on the Thinness of Constitutional Law, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 410 (1993) [hereinafter Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes]; Lawrence Gene Sager, Fair Measure: The Legal Status of Underenforced Constitutional Norms, 91 Harv. L. Rev. 1212 (1978).
4. Robin West, Rights, Capabilities, and the Good Society, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1901 (2001).
5. See transcript on file with Fordham Law Review; see also William E. Forbath, Constitutional Welfare Rights: A History, Critique and Reconstruction, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1821 (2001); Frank I. Michelman, Democracy-Based Resistance to a Constitutional Right of Social Citizenship: A Comment on Forbath, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1893 (2001).
6. See transcript on file with Fordham Law Review; see also William E. Forbath, Constitutional Welfare Rights: A History, Critique and Reconstruction, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1821 (2001); Frank I. Michelman, Democracy-Based Resistance to a Constitutional Right of Social Citizenship: A Comment on Forbath, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1893 (2001).
7. West, supra note 2, at 1924-29.
8. 397 U.S. 254 (1970).
9. Id. at 269-71.
10. 457 U.S. 202 (1982).
11. Id. at 230.
12. See supra note 1.
13. Mark Tushnet, Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts (1999).
14. Id. at 177-85.
15. See id. at 185.
16. Id. at 62-63.
17. Id. at 51.
18. Id. at 36.
19. Id. at 60-61.
20. See id. at 169-72.
21. Id. at 6-7, 193-94.
22. For the Amendments made by Proposition 187, see Cal. Gov't Code § 53069.65 (West 1997); Cal. Health & Safety Code § 130(c) (West Supp. 2001); Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 10001.5(c) (West Supp. 2001).
23. For the Amendments made by Proposition 187, see Cal. Gov't Code § 53069.65 (West 1997); Cal. Health & Safety Code § 130(c) (West Supp. 2001); Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 10001.5(c) (West Supp. 2001).
24. For the Amendments made by Proposition 187, see Cal. Gov't Code § 53069.65 (West 1997); Cal. Health & Safety Code § 130(c) (West Supp. 2001); Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 10001.5(c) (West Supp. 2001).
25. 457 U.S. 202 (1982).
26. Id. at 230.
27. Tushnet, supra note 10, at 169-72.
28. Id. at 193-94.
29. Id.
30. Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489, 492 (1999).
31. Id. at 503-04.
32. 397 U.S. 254 (1970).
33. 457 U.S. 202 (1982).
34. 526 U.S. 489 (1999).
35. Id. at 503-04.
36. This possibility was suggested to me by the colloquy earlier in the conference between Professors William Forbath and Frank Michelman. See supra note 3.
37. See e.g., Robert F. Nagel, Nationalized Political Discourse, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 2057 (2001).
38. 457 U.S. 202 (1982).
39. 528 U.S. 62 (2000) (holding that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act did not abrogate the states' Eleventh Amendment immunity from suits by private individuals).
40. 529 U.S. 598 (2000) (holding that neither the Commerce Clause nor the Fourteen Amendment provided Congress with authority to enact the civil remedy provision of the Violence Against Women Act).
41. Sager, Justice in Plain Clothes, supra note 1, at 431.
42. West, supra note 2, at 1924-29.