The Constitution in 2020
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195387961 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. The Constitution in 2020 calls on liberals to articulate their constitutional vision in a way that can command the confidence of ordinary Americans.. The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds--Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark Tushnet, Yochai Benkler and Richard Ford, among others--the book tackles a wide range of issues, including the challenge of new technologies, presidential power, international human rights, religious liberty, freedom of speech, voting, reproductive rights, and economic rights
Tribe, University Professor, Harvard Law School, and author of The Invisible Constitution. High school students in advanced placement US government and politics classes might be encouraged to read a few of the essays. "It is clear that no talent was spared in the construction of Balkin and Siegel's book The Constitution in 2020.Balkin and Siegel have drawn together a group of contributors highly qualified to predict the challenges that redemptive constitutionalism could face in the next decade."--PoliticalStudies Review"The Constitution
Mixed, sometimes biased scholarship Arnold This book's premise is interesting - gather the country's top liberal constitutional law experts and write a book (originally a conference) on how progressives would interpret the Constitution. I consider myself somewhat a progressive budding comparative constitutional law scholar, so the book fit some of my ideological biases. However, I'm much more concerned about good scholarship and sound arguments, and in that respect this book didn't meet my expectations.. Too far left even for a liberal democrat I consider myself a liberal democrat, but the tenor of this book is really almost leftist, so it didn't really appeal to me. I had to get it for a class, I wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't required reading.. "Leftist propaganda!" according to MIKE from NY. The only objective description of this book is as leftist political propaganda. Leftists view the Court as a nine person super-legislature, the prime function of which is to impose what they view as, fairness, compassion and “justice” (in its most amorphous sense) on an American society that is just too dumb to know better. In this progressive utopian fantasyland, the Court has virtually unchecked power to “interpret” the Constitution, h
She is currently writing a series of articles exploring the genesis of the "traditional family values" coalition and the evolving strategies of the anti-abortion movement.. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, and the Founder and Director of Yale's Information Society Project, an interd