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Judging Power Plays in the American States
- Law, Political ScienceSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2019
Around the country, officials in “purple” states are waging high-stakes battles in which they alter government institutions for partisan advantage. Lame-duck legislatures have divested newly elected…
Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA
- Law
- 2006
Social movements change the ways Americans understand the Constitution. Social movement conflict, enabled and constrained by constitutional culture, can create new forms of constitutional…
What's so Great About Constitutionalism?
- Law
- 1997
This paper identifies and then criticizes ten of the leading accounts of constitutionalism: enforcement of a principal-agent relationship; enforcement of societal precommitments; providing a…
Managing Political Polarization in Congress: A Case Study on the Use of the Hastert Rule
- Political Science
- 2014
The rise of the Tea Party and the ideological divisions within the Republican Party created challenging conditions for Speaker Boehner. The strategic use of the “go-it-alone” Hastert Rule allowed…
The History of the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Part One: The Road to Judicial Supremacy
- Law
- 1998
Despite the fact that the countermajoritarian difficulty has been the preeminent preoccupation of constitutional theory for several decades, precious little work has been done to understand why this…