| #1502344 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2012-04-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.50 x1.40 x9.30l,1.55 | File type: PDF | 448 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| UPDATING THE CONSTITUTION|By Paul Froehlich|Readers who think they know a lot about the Constitution will find out how much more they have to learn from this book. Law Professor Sanford Levinson examines parts of the document few people pay attention to, and he compares the Constitution to state constitutions and to the constitutions in other countries.
In our era o|||"From America's greatest revolutionary constitutionalist, a profoundly important book, that will be at the center of the next reform movement."--Lawrence Lessig, author of Republic, Lost |||"Anyone who cares about America's future should read Sandy Levinson's
In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and whether we accept those assumptions 225 years later.
In Framed, Levinson challenges our belief that the most important features of our...
You easily download any file type for your device.Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance | Sanford Levinson. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
