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About: Constitution is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 37828 publications have been published within this topic receiving 435603 citations.


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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Logic of American Politics as discussed by the authors is an overview of the history of American politics and its connections to the current state of the country. But it does not consider the role of the news media in American politics.
Abstract: 1. The Logic of American Politics I. THE NATIONALIZATION OF POLITICS 2. The Constitution 3. Federalism 4. Civil Rights 5. Civil Liberties II. THE INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT 6. Congress 7. The Presidency 8. The Bureaucracy 9. The Federal Judiciary III. THE PUBLIC'S INFLUENCE ON NATIONAL POLICY 10. Public Opinion 11. Voting, Campaigns, and Elections 12. Political Parties 13. Interest Groups 14. The News Media IV. CONCLUSION 15. The Prospects for Institutional Reform

71 citations

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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: The relationship of Indian Tribes to the three branches of the federal government is discussed in this paper. But the relationship between Indian tribes and the three different branches of government is not discussed.
Abstract: Introduction Chapter I. Europeans and the New World Chapter II. The Articles of Confederation Chapter III. The Constitution and American Indian Tribes The Federalist Papers Explicit Clauses Dealing with Indians Implicit Clauses Dealing with Indians Chapter IV. The Relationship of Indian Tribes to the Three Branches of the Federal Government Indians and the Executive Branch Indians and the Legislative Branch Indians and the Judicial Branch Chapter V. The Historical Development of Constitutional Clauses The Treaty-making Power The Power to Regulate Commerce The Property Clause Miscellaneous Constitutional Clauses Chapter VI. The Constitutional Amendments The Bill of Rights The First Amendment: The Establishment of Religion The First Amendment: The Free Exercise Clause The Lyng Decision The Smith Decision The First Amendment: Freedoms of Speech and Assembly The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure The Fifth Amendment: Double Jeopardy The Fifth Amendment: Due Process The Fifth Amendment: Just Compensation The Sixth Amendment: Legal Counsel Chapter VII. The Later Constitutional Amendments The Thirteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Due Process The Fifteenth Amendment The Sixteenth Amendment The Prohibition Amendments The Twenty-sixth Amendment Chapter VIII. The Status of Indian Tribes and the Constitution Notes References Index of Cases Ceneral Index

70 citations

Book
30 Nov 1978
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss crisis and legitimacy in the administrative process and the role of summary action as an administrative process, and the challenge of the legitimacy of the summary action process.
Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. Crisis and legitimacy in the administrative process Part I. Sources of crisis in the administrative process: 2. Separation of powers and the American imagination 3. The departure from judicial norms 4. Public perceptions and administrative performance 5. Agency independence and political accountability 6. Delegation of power and institutional competence 7. Explaining differences in agency performance 8. The significance of public attitudes toward agency goals 9. The significance of institutional capacities and limitations Part II. The relevance of administrative procedure 10. Administrative procedure and the nature of legitimacy Part III. The nature of the formal administrative process 11. Defining the idea of 'agency' 12. The Administrative Procedure Act and enforcement proceedings 13. The significance of an impartial hearing officer 14. Separation of functions and the Constitution 15. Disqualification for bias Part IV. The nature of the informal administrative process: 16. The meaning of summary action 17. Summary action and the Constitution 18. Summary action as an administrative process 19. Structuring the use of summary action Conclusion: 20. The challenge of administrative legitimacy Notes Bibliography Index.

70 citations

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TL;DR: The international legal order, although pluralist in structure, is in the process of being constitutionalized as mentioned in this paper, and one finds a great deal of constitutional pluralism within national legal orders in Europe.
Abstract: The international legal order, although pluralist in structure, is in the process of being constitutionalized. This article supports this claim in several different ways. In the Part I, I argue that most accepted understandings of “constitution” would readily apply to at least some international regimes. In Part II, I discuss different notions of “constitutional pluralism,” and demonstrate that legal pluralism is not necessarily antithetical to constitutionalism. In fact, one finds a great deal of constitutional pluralism within national legal orders in Europe. Part III puts forward an argument that the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization are constitutional jurisdictions. In the Conclusion, I respond what I take to be the most important objections to these claims.

70 citations

Book
01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The framers of the U. S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national and local authority, and they located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the ''compound republic'' as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The framers of the U. S. Constitution focused intently on the difficulties of achieving a workable middle ground between national and local authority. They located that middle ground in a new form of federalism that James Madison called the ""compound republic."" The term conveys the complicated and ambiguous intent of the framing generation and helps to make comprehensible what otherwise is bewildering to the modern citizenry: a form of government that divides and disperses official power between majorities of two different kinds --one composed of individual voters, and the other, of the distinct political societies we call states. America's federalism is the subject of this collection of essays by Martha Derthick, a leading scholar of American government. She explores the nature of the compound republic, with attention both to its enduring features and to the changes wrought in the twentieth century by Progressivism, the New Deal, and the civil rights revolution. Interest in federalism is likely to increase in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. There are demands for reform of the electoral college, given heightened awareness that it does not strictly reflect the popular vote. The U. S. Supreme Court, under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, has mounted an explicit and controversial defense of federalism, and new nominees to the Court are likely to be questioned on that subject and appraised in part by their responses. Derthick's essays invite readers to join the Court in weighing the contemporary importance of federalism as an institution of government.

70 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20241
20232,090
20224,774
2021860
20201,213
20191,262