Framed: America's Fifty-One Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

by Sanford Levinson

Book Overview

In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and whether we accept those assumptions 225 years later.

In Framed, Levinson challenges our belief that the most important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199890757
• ISBN13: 9780199890750
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"