Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do - Hardcover

Sunstein, Cass R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195145429 ISBN 13: 9780195145427

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Designing Democracy What is the purpose of a constitution? This book shows how a democratic constitution helps diverse people, with opposing ethical and religious commitments, to live together on terms of mutual respect.

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Review:

"This book represents an important contribution to our thinking about what constitions do, as well as what constitutions ought to do, and therefore should be considered a must read for anyone who is constitutional scholar."-- The Law and Polities Book Review

"One of our finest constitutional thinkers, Cass Sunstein develops here a powerful new understanding of a constitution's purpose and resources. In this important book, Professor Sunstein discusses the way a democratic constitution can turn a nation's political differences, however sharp, into a constructive force."--William Jefferson Clinton, former president of the United States

About the Author:

Cass Sunstein is Karl Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science. His many books include Republic.com, One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court, Free Markets and Social Justice, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, and The Partial Constitution. He has advised many nations on constitution-making and law reform initiatives, including Ukraine, South Africa, China, Bosnia, Israel, Russia, and Poland. A former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall and a former Attorney-Advisor in the Department of Justice, he has testified before Congress on many issues, including free speech in the media, separation of powers, discriminations against gays in the military, and presidential impeachment. He served on the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligation of Television Broadcasters and is a frequent contributor to The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0195145429
• ISBN 13: 9780195145427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292