Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

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ISBN-10:

0300085311

ISBN-13:

9780300085310

Edition: First Edition
Released: Sep 01, 2001
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages

Description:

Ours is an age of growing doubt about constitutional theory and of outright hostility to any theory that defends judicial review. Why should a tiny number of unelected judges be able to validate or invalidate laws on such politically controversial issues as abortion, religion, gender, and sex―or even determine how the president is elected? In this provocative book, a leading constitutional theorist offers an entirely original defense of judicial review. Louis Michael Seidman argues that judicial review is defensible if we set aside common but erroneous assumptions―that constitutional law should be independent from our political commitments and that the role of constitutional law is to settle political disagreement.

Seidman develops a theory of “unsettlement.” A constitution that unsettles, that destabilizes outcomes produced by the political process, creates no permanent losers nursing deep-seated grievances, he says. An “unsettling” constitution helps to build a community founded on consent by enticing losers into a continuing conversation. The author applies this theory to an array of well-known cases heard by the Supreme Court over the past several decades, including the fall 2000 election decision.

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