Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process by Vile, John R.

Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275945411)

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Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process by Vile, John R.

Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process

$75.00
Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process by Vile, John R.

Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process

$75.00
Format: Hardcover
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This study examines contemporary questions surrounding the process by which the U.S. Constitution can be amended. Beginning with a description of the mechanism and history of the constitutional amending process in America, the work considers five major questions surrounding the amending process. The question of justiciability: whether the courts should have authority to settle amending issues or whether they are political questions beyond the court's purview. The question of standards: what standards of review should be used. The question of safety: the safety of invoking the constitutional convention mechanism. The question of exclusivity: whether there are legal means of changing the Constitution short of Article V. And the question of limitations: whether there are any unstated constitutional limits on the amending process.

Author: John R. Vile
ISBN-10: 0275945413
ISBN-13: 9780275945411
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1993
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By John R. Vile
By John R. Vile
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JOHN R. VILE is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University. His many articles have appeared in journals such as The Journal of Law & Politics, The American Journal of Legal History, and The National Law Journal. In addition, he is the author of three books on the U.S. Constitution: Rewriting the United States Constitution (Praeger, 1991), The Constitutional Amending Process in American Political Thought (Praeger, 1992), and A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments (Praeger, 1993).

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