Author: Bruce Ackerman
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: transformations, volume, people
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2000-09-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0674003977
ISBN-13: 9780674003972

Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures to this day.

Author: Bruce A. Ackerman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: legitimacy, question, gore, bush
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-03
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0300093802
ISBN-13: 9780300093803

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court’s actions. Did the Court’s decision violate the rule of law? Did it inaugurate an era of super-politicized jurisprudence? How should Bush v. Gore change the terms of debate over the next round of Supreme Court appointments? The contributors-Bruce Ackerman, Jack Balkin, Guido Calabresi, S

Author: Bruce Ackerman
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: foundations, volume, people
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1993-03-15
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674948416
ISBN-13: 9780674948419

Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation’s constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and future of popular sovereignty in America. Only this distinguished scholar could present such an insightful view of the role of the Supreme Court. Rejecting arguments of judicial activists, proceduralists, and neoconservatives, Ackerman proposes a new model of judicial interpretation that would synthesize the constitutional contributions of ma

Author: Professor Bruce Ackerman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: legitimacy, question, gore, bush
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-05-11
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0300093799
ISBN-13: 9780300093797

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court’s actions. Did the Court’s decision violate the rule of law? Did it inaugurate an era of super-politicized jurisprudence? How should Bush v. Gore change the terms of debate over the next round of Supreme Court appointments? The contributors-Bruce Ackerman, Jack Balkin, Guido Calabresi, S

Author: Professor Bruce Ackerman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: state, liberal, justice, social
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1981-09-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300027575
ISBN-13: 9780300027570

Certain to become the most important work in political theory since John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, this book presents a brilliantly original, compelling vision of a just society-a world in which each of us may live his own life in his own way without denying the same right to others. Full of provocative discussions of issues ranging from education to abortion, it makes fascinating reading for anyone concerned with the future of the liberal democratic state.

Author: Professor Bruce Ackerman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: constitution, property, private
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 1978-09-10
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0300022379
ISBN-13: 9780300022377

The proper construction of the compensation clause of the Constitution has emerged as the central legal issue of the environmental revolution, as property owners have challenged a steady stream of environmental statutes that have cut deeply into traditional notions of property rights. When may they justly demand that the state compensate them for the sacrifices they are called upon to make for the common good? Ackerman argues that there is more at stake in the present wave of litigation than even the future shape of environmental law in the United States. To frame an adequate response, lawy

Authors:Anne Alstott, Bruce A. Ackerman,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: society, stakeholder
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-05
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0300082606
ISBN-13: 9780300082609

Must we resign ourselves to a growing chasm between rich and poor? Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott propose an innovative alternative in this thought-provoking book: an eighty thousand dollar grant for every qualifying young adult. The authors analyze this plan from many perspectives and argue that such a citizen’s stake would open the way to a society that is more democratic, productive, and free.