Constitutional Brinksmanship: Amending the Constitution by National Convention

Constitutional Brinksmanship: Amending the Constitution by National Convention
ISBN-10
019505573X
ISBN-13
9780195055733
Category
History
Pages
265
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Russell L. Caplan

Description

In this first systematic study of the legal problems relating to the convention clause, Russell Caplan shows that repeated constitutional crises have given rise to state drives for a national convention nearly every twenty years since the Constitution was enacted. He deftly examines the politics of constitutional brinksmanship between Congress and the states to reveal the ongoing tension between state and federal rights and constitutional tradition and reform.

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