The People Themselves

副标题: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

ISBN: 9780195306453

出版社: Oxford University Press, USA

出版年: 2005-12-08

页数: 376

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.

作者简介

拉里·克雷默（Larry D.Kramer）　斯坦福大学法学院院长，理查德·朗讲座教授。

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