001478370 000__ 04944nam\a22009135i\4500 001478370 001__ 1478370 001478370 003__ DE-B1597 001478370 005__ 20231026034859.0 001478370 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478370 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478370 008__ 220524t20212001mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478370 020__ $$a9780674034464 001478370 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674034464$$2doi 001478370 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574653 001478370 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1257325009 001478370 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478370 0410_ $$aeng 001478370 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478370 072_7 $$aLAW018000$$2bisacsh 001478370 08204 $$a342.73 001478370 1001_ $$aEISGRUBER, Christopher L., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478370 24510 $$aConstitutional Self-Government /$$cChristopher L. EISGRUBER. 001478370 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2021] 001478370 264_4 $$c©2001 001478370 300__ $$a1 online resource (272 p.) 001478370 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478370 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478370 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478370 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478370 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478370 520__ $$aMost of us regard the Constitution as the foundation of American democracy. How, then, are we to understand the restrictions that it imposes on legislatures and voters? Why, for example, does the Constitution allow unelected judges to exercise so much power? And why is this centuries-old document so difficult to amend? In short, how can we call ourselves a democracy when we are bound by an entrenched, and sometimes counter-majoritarian, constitution? In Constitutional Self-Government, Christopher Eisgruber focuses directly on the Constitution's seemingly undemocratic features. Whereas other scholars have tried to reconcile these features with majority rule, or simply acknowledged them as necessary limits on democracy, Eisgruber argues that constitutionalism is best regarded not as a constraint upon self-government, but as a crucial ingredient in a complex, non-majoritarian form of democracy. In an original and provocative argument, he contends that legislatures and elections provide only an incomplete representation of the people, and he claims that the Supreme Court should be regarded as another of the institutions able to speak for Americans about justice. At a pivotal moment of worldwide interest in judicial review and renewed national controversy over the Supreme Court's role in politics, Constitutional Self-Government ingeniously locates the Constitution's value in its capacity to sustain an array of institutions that render self-government meaningful for a large and diverse people. 001478370 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478370 546__ $$aIn English. 001478370 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022) 001478370 650_0 $$aDemocracy$$xUnited States. 001478370 650_0 $$aDemocracy. 001478370 650_0 $$aJudicial review$$xUnited States. 001478370 650_0 $$aJudicial review$$zUnited States. 001478370 650_0 $$aLegislative power$$xUnited States. 001478370 650_0 $$aLegislative power$$zUnited States. 001478370 650_0 $$aRepresentative government and representation$$xUnited States. 001478370 650_0 $$aRepresentative government and representation$$zUnited States. 001478370 650_7 $$aLAW / Constitutional.$$2bisacsh 001478370 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478370 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$z9783110756067 001478370 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478370 852__ $$bebk 001478370 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674034464$$zOnline Access 001478370 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478370$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478370 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478370 912__ $$a978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$b2013 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LAEC 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LAEC 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_ESTMALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478370 912__ $$aEBA_STMALL 001478370 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478370 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478370 912__ $$aPDA12STME 001478370 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478370 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478370 912__ $$aPDA18STMEE 001478370 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478370 980__ $$aBIB 001478370 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478370 982__ $$aEbook 001478370 983__ $$aOnline