The Migration of Constitutional Ideas

The migration of constitutional rules throughout jurisdictions is likely one of the critical gains of latest constitutional perform. The expanding use of comparative jurisprudence in examining constitutions is one instance of this. during this 2007 ebook, prime figures within the examine of comparative constitutionalism and comparative constitutional politics from North the United States, Europe and Australia talk about the dynamic tactics wherein constitutional structures impact one another.

Interstate Economic Relations

A accomplished examine the industrial kinfolk between states, and the way they could be greater optimized. during this groundbreaking quantity, Joseph F. Zimmerman examines interstate financial family members. He explores the historical past of congressional and judicial floor ideas governing such kinfolk, direct and oblique interstate alternate limitations and technique of their elimination, and interstate pageant for tax sales, enterprise companies, activities franchises, travelers, and gamblers.

Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues

Many have argued lately that the U. S. constitutional method exalts person rights over obligations, virtues, and the typical sturdy. Answering the fees opposed to liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain increase and protect a civic liberalism that takes duties and virtues—as good as rights—seriously.

Privacy and the American Constitution: New Rights Through Interpretation of an Old Text

This e-book explains a paradox in American constitutional legislation: how a correct no longer mentioned through the ratification debates at Philadelphia and never pointed out within the textual content has turn into a middle section of sleek freedom. quite, privateness is a constitutional afterthought that has won strength via sleek interpretations of an outdated textual content.