a ISBN 0-691-086575-

a ISBN 0-691-025703-

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number KF4555.A75

b Item number R47 1995

a Title Responding to imperfection :

b Remainder of title the theory and practice of constitutional amendment /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Sanford Levinson, editor.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton, N.J. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c1995.

a Extent viii, 330 p. ;

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction : imperfection and amendability / Sanford Levinson -- How many times has the United States Constitution been amended? (A) <26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) >27 : accounting for constitutional change / Sanford Levinson -- Constitutionalism in the United States : from theory to politics / Stephen M. Griffin -- Higher lawmaking / Bruce Ackerman -- Popular sovereignty and constitutional amendment / Akhil Reed Amar -- The plain meaning of Article V / David R. Dow -- Amending the presuppositions of a constitution / Frederick Schauer -- Merlin's memory : the past and future imperfect of the once and future policy / Walter F. Murphy -- The case against implicit limits on the constitutional amending process / John R. Vile -- The "original" Thirteenth Amendment and the limits to formal constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon -- Toward a theory of constitutional amendment / Donald S. Lutz -- The politics of constitutional revision in Eastern Europe / Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein -- Midrash : amendment through the molding of meaning / Noam J. Zohar.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Constitutional amendments

a Personal name Levinson Sanford

d Dates associated with a name 1941