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20 May 2008, 5:24 am
Bruce Ackerman says transformative opinions, de facto constitutional amendments. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 6:58 am
But instead, it represents the birth of American democracy.Three interesting books describe the significance of the election of 1800: Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy, Susan Dunn, Jefferson's Second Revolution: The election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism (2004), and John Ferling, Adams v. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 10:41 am
(Ackerman does not call himself an "originalist," but many of Ackerman's former students do work that is implicitly or explicitly originalist.) [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 1:07 pm
And, CAAFlog reports on what happens in the 10th Circuit in Ackerman v. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 4:19 am
People sometimes use the terms "basic law" and "higher law" interchangeably; for example, the German Basic Law strongly protects human dignity, and Bruce Ackerman has famously argued that constitutional amendment outside of Article V is an example of "higher lawmaking. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 7:52 am
Earlier this week, the 6th Circuit in Warshak v. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 4:31 pm
Ackerman also has trouble accounting for changes that occur outside of his eight cycles, but I say more about this below.In one crucial respect, Ackerman appears to be departing from the model he presented in volume 1 of We The People and endorsing the theory I present in American Constitutionalism. [read post]
31 May 2007, 11:50 pm
They offer a dazzling and transformative portrait of an era that most of us thought we knew, and they raise a whole series of new questions both for legal scholars and for Ackerman himself as he works on the final volume of We the People. [read post]
30 May 2007, 10:54 am
However, Ackerman wants to moor truly transformative changes, such as the New Deal, in the amending text of Article V of the Constitution. [read post]
11 May 2007, 5:46 am
This approach offers a relatively simple answer to one of the most important problems in constitutional theory: How do we explain the evident fact that the structure of our government and the rights of the people have changed pervasively since the Founding, in ways that are simply not reflected in Article V amendments to the canonical text? [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 10:05 pm
People write comments on the blog, and they respond to them. [read post]