Constitutional Rights & Powers of the People (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Moore, Wayne D

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691011117 ISBN 13: 9780691011110

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This work examines the relation between the concept of "the people" and the design of the American constitution. It asks such questions as: Who is included among the people?; How are the people politically configured?; How may the people act?; and how do the people relate to government structures? The author considers historical material from the antebellum period, such as the opinions of the US Supreme Court justices in the Dred Scott case, and different perspectives from the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass. Influential thinking from the founding period is covered; and there is also an examination of issues raised by claims of state interpretive autonomy. The conclusion models various dimensions of the constitutional order as a whole.

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"Wayne Moore is asking fresh and interesting questions about what it means to participate in a constitutional regime based on the idea of popular sovereignty.... Anyone interested in American Constitutionalism would benefit from this book."--Sanford Levinson, University of Texas, Austin

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691011117
• ISBN 13: 9780691011110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308