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Informationen zum Autor Howard Gillman is Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, History, and Law at the University of California, Irvine. . He has chaired that section and been honored by it for exceptional service and mentoring.Mark A. Graber is the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism at the University of Marylands Francis King Carey School of Law.Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and is currently director of graduate studies in the Department of Politics. Klappentext In The Complete American Constitutionalism, Volume One: Introduction and The Colonial Era, the authors provide the building blocks for constitutional analysis with an in-depth exploration of the constitutional conflicts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that formed the overall American constitutional experience. Zusammenfassung The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience. It provides the analysis, resources, and materials both domestic and foreign readers must understand with regards to the practice of constitutionalism in the United States. This first volume of a projected eight volume set is entitled: Introduction and The Colonial Era. Here the authors provide the building blocks for constitutional analysis with an in-depth exploration of the constitutional conflicts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that formed the overall American constitutional experience. This is the first collection of materials that focuses on the crucial constitutional documents and debates that structured American constitutional understandings at the time of the American Revolution. It details the roots of the common law rights that Americans demanded be respected and the different interpretations of the English constitutional experience that increasingly divided Members of Parliament from American Revolutionaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables, Figures, and Images Preface Part 1: Introduction to American Constitutionalism I. What Is a Constitution? II. Constitutional Purposes III. Constitutional Interpretation and Decision Making A. Constitutional Arguments B. Sources of Constitutional Arguments C. The Politics of Constitutional Argument IV. Constitutional Authority V. Constitutional Change VI. Constitutional Politics and Law Bibliography Part 2: The Colonial Era: Before 1776 I. Introduction II. Foundations A. Sources B. Principles C. Scope III. Constitutional Authority and Judicial Power A. Constitutional Authority B. Judicial Selection, Structure and Jurisdiction C. Constitutional Litigation IV. Powers A. General Principles B. Congressional (Parliamentary) Power over Domestic Policy C. Congressional (Parliamentary Power over Foreign Policy D. Congressional (Parliamentary) Power to Acquire and Govern Territory E. Powers and Rights of Members of Congress (Parliament), Observers, and Congressional (Parliamentary) Committees F. State (Colonial) Powers under State Constitutions (Colonial Charters) V. Federalism A. The Status of States (Colonies) in the Federal Union (British Empire) B. State (Colonial) Sovereign Immunity and Commandeering C. Preemption D. Relationships between States (Colonies) VI. Separation of Powers A. General Principles B. Presidential (Royal) War and Foreign Policy Powers C. Domestic Powers of the President (Monarch) D. Presidential (Royal) Power to Execute the Law E. Appointment and Removal Powers F. Executive Privileges, Immunities and Impeachment VII. Individual Rights A. Property B. Religion C. Guns D. Personal Freedom and Public Morality E. Positive Rights VIII. Democratic Rights A. Free Speech B. Voting ...
