Bruce A. Ackerman Bücher

Jeder Staatsbürger erhält bei Eintritt ins Erwachsenenalter 80 000 Dollar, über die er frei verfügen kann, für deren Verwendung er aber auch verantwortlich ist. Diese Summe ist sein „Stake“, sein Anteil am Reichtum der Nation, der er angehört. Dieses Stakeholder-Modell gegen die neue Ungleichheit liefert verblüffende Anregungen für die Reform des Sozialstaats.

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This text argues that constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first. It sets contemporary events, such as the Reagan revolution, in deeper, constitutional perspective and considers fundamental reforms that might resolve them. schovat popis

The book presents a critical legal analysis of the impeachment process against Bill Clinton, arguing that it violated fundamental legal protocols in Congress and was therefore unconstitutional. It highlights the ethical dilemmas involved and serves as a cautionary tale about the extreme measures the American right may employ to undermine political opponents, emphasizing its relevance to contemporary political dynamics.

A re-interpretation of American constitutional history, planned as the first of three volumes. Ackerman examines the transforming impact of popular movements on higher law. He also aims to put the Reagan revolution into perspective and redefine America's civic commitments for the future.

This book revisits the electoral college crisis of 1800, offering a new understanding of the early plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court struggling to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Ackerman shows how the early court integrated... číst celé

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The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman's sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v Board of Education. Laws that ended Jim Crow and ensured equal rights at work, in schools, and in the voting booth gained congressional approval only after the American people mobilized their support.

Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.