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- Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction A Return to Constitutional Basics: Amendment, Constitution, and Writtenness
- 1 The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States
- 2 Enumerating Amendments
- 3 Change Is the Only Constant: Unwritten Amendments and the Courts
- 4 The Role of the People in Unwritten Amendments
- 5 Unwritten State Constitutions? In Search of Constitutional Communities
- 6 State Constitutions and the Interaction between Formal Amendment and Unwritten Commitments
- 7 The Drive for a National Popular Vote for the Presidency: A Case Study in Amending the Unwritten Constitution
- 8 The Trump Presidency, the Racial Realignment, and the Future of Constitutional Norms
- 9 Amending an Unwritten Constitution: Comparative Perspectives
- 10 The Unwritten Foundations of (All) Written Constitutions
- Index
- References
Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction A Return to Constitutional Basics: Amendment, Constitution, and Writtenness
- 1 The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States
- 2 Enumerating Amendments
- 3 Change Is the Only Constant: Unwritten Amendments and the Courts
- 4 The Role of the People in Unwritten Amendments
- 5 Unwritten State Constitutions? In Search of Constitutional Communities
- 6 State Constitutions and the Interaction between Formal Amendment and Unwritten Commitments
- 7 The Drive for a National Popular Vote for the Presidency: A Case Study in Amending the Unwritten Constitution
- 8 The Trump Presidency, the Racial Realignment, and the Future of Constitutional Norms
- 9 Amending an Unwritten Constitution: Comparative Perspectives
- 10 The Unwritten Foundations of (All) Written Constitutions
- Index
- References
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- Amending America's Unwritten Constitution , pp. ii - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022