Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process

by John R. Vile

This study examines contemporary questions surrounding the process by which the U.S. Constitution can be amended. Beginning with a description of the mechanism and history of the constitutional amending process in America, the work considers five major questions surrounding the amending process. The question of justiciability: whether the courts should have authority to settle amending issues or whether they are political questions beyond the court's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275945413
• ISBN13: 9780275945411
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"