Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People

by Wayne D. Moore

Book Overview

American constitutionalism rests on premises of popular sovereignty, but serious questions remain about how the "people" and their rights and powers fit into the constitutional design. In a book that will radically reorient thinking about the Constitution and its place in the polity, Wayne Moore moves away from an exclusive focus on courts and judges and considers the following queries: Who is included among the people? How are the people politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691002444
• ISBN13: 9780691002446
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.0"

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Honored as the best book on law published in 1996 -- C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association, August 199