In medias res

Boston University Law Review

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1259-1269

  Yackle, Larry ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84866065790     PISSN: 00068047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (23)

1. See generally DAVID A. STRAUSS, THE LIVING CONSTITUTION (2010).
2. See, e.g., Michael C. Dorf, Integrating Normative and Descriptive Constitutional Theory: The Case of Original Meaning, 85 GEO. L. J. 1765, 1772 (1997);
3. Richard H. Fallon, Jr., How to Choose a Constitutional Theory, 87 CALIF. L. REV. 535, 547 (1999).
4. Henry P. Monaghan, Our Perfect Constitution, 56 N. Y. U. L. REV. 353, 384 (1981).
5. David A. Strauss, Common Law, Common Ground, and Jefferson's Principle, 112 YALE LJ. 1717, 1733 (2003).
6. See U. S. CONST, art. 1, § 3, cl. 4.
7. U. S. CONST, art. 1, § 3, cl. 6.
8. See U. S. CONST, art. 1, § 4, cl. 1.
9. See U. S. CONST, art. 2, § 1, cl. 4.
10. AKHIL REED AMAR, AMERICA'S CONSTITUTION 160 (2005).
11. But cf. Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U. S. 1, 37 (1949) (Jackson, J., dissenting) (famously warning that the Bill of Rights should not be turned into such a pact).
12. HANNA LERNER, MAKING CONSTITUTIONS IN DEEPLY DIVIDED SOCIETIES 33 (2011).
13. David A. Strauss, Common Law Constitutional Interpretation, 63 U. CHI. L. REV. 877, 924 (1996).
14. ALBERT P. BLAUSTEIN, FRAMING THE MODERN CONSTITUTION: A CHECKLIST, at v (1994).
15. See ANDREW BLICK, CODIFYING - OR NOT CODIFYING - THE UK CONSTITUTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW 3 (2011) (collecting recent publications in point). Numerous reforms adopted in recent years have already advanced the codification movement along, though in a fragmented way.
16. VERNON BOGDANOR, THE NEW BRITISH CONSTITUTION 4-5 (2009).
17. JUSTUS SCHÖNLAU, DRAFTING THE EU CHARTER: RIGHTS, LEGITIMACY AND PROCESS 3-4, 107-13 (2005).
18. KYOKO INOUE, MACARTHUR'S JAPANESE CONSTITUTION: A LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL STUDY OF ITS MAKING 16-17 (1991).
19. SANFORD LEVINSON, OUR UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION: WHERE THE CONSTITUTION GOES WRONG (AND HOW WE THE PEOPLE CAN CORRECT IT) 173 (2006).
20. MALCOLM M. FEELEY & EDWARD RUBIN, FEDERALISM: POLITICAL IDENTITY AND TRAGIC COMPROMISE 151 (2008).
21. See John P. Roche, The Founding Fathers: A Reform Caucus in Action, 55 AM. POL. SCI. REV. 799, 816 (1961).
22. Sanford Levinson, Do Constitutions Have a Point? Reflections on "Parchment Barriers" and Preambles, in WHAT SHOULD CONSTITUTIONS DO? 150, 153 (Ellen Frankel Paul etal. eds., 2011).
23. See, e.g., Herman Schwartz, Economic and Social Rights, 8 AM. U. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 551, 553 (1993).