Philadelphia Revisited: Amending the Constitution Outside Article V
| dc.contributor.author | Amar, Akhil | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:34:13.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:34:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:34:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1988-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 | |
| dc.identifier | fss_papers/1023 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 1668329 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/213 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the corridors of power of our nation's capital, and in law school classrooms everywhere, debates are raging over basic questions of constitutional theory: Does the Constitution guarantee unenumerated rights? If so, how are these rights to be derived and enforced? Should judges depart from constitutional text, history, and structure to maintain a "living" Constitution? With increasing frequency, these debates have converged to frame the following now-standard question: Should we (or did the Framers) rely exclusively on the formal amending process of Article V to update the Constitution, or should we (or did the Framers) also rely on the federal judiciary to act as a kind of continuous constitutional convention, ever evolving new unenumerated individual rights? | |
| dc.title | Philadelphia Revisited: Amending the Constitution Outside Article V | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | Faculty Scholarship Series | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:34:32Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1023 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2022&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 |
