The Constitution in 2020
edited by Jack M. Balkin, Reva B. Siegel.
- Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2009.
- ix, 355 p. ill. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fidelity to text and principle Democratic constitutionalism minimalist Constitution Economic power and the Constitution Social and economic rights in the American grain : reclaiming constitutional political economy State action in 2020 missing jurisprudence of the legislated Constitution Remembering how to do equality citizenship agenda National citizenship and the promise of equal educational opportunity Terms of belonging Hopeless constitutionalism, hopeful pragmatism Voting rights and the third reconstruction Political organization and the future of democracy progressive perspective on freedom of speech Information, structures, and the Constitution of American society Constitution in the national surveillance state progressive past framers' church-state problem--and ours Progressives, the religion clauses, and the limits of secularism liberal vision of U.S. family law in 2020 progressive reproductive rights agenda for 2020 What's federalism for? Progressive constitutionalism and transnational legal discourse "Strategies of the weak" : thinking globally and acting locally toward a progressive constitutional vision America and the world Jack M. Balkin -- Robert C. Post and Reva B. Siegel -- Cass R. Sunstein -- Frank Michelman -- William E. Forbath -- Mark Tushnet -- Robin West -- Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel -- Bruce Ackerman -- Goodwin Liu -- Rachel F. Moran -- Richard T. Ford -- Pamela S. Karlan -- Larry Kramer -- Robert C. Post -- Yochai Benkler -- Jack M. Balkin -- Tracey L. Meares -- Noah Feldman -- William P. Marshall -- William N. Eskridge, Jr. -- Dawn E. Johnsen -- Judith Resnik -- Vicki C. Jackson -- David Cole -- Harold Hongju Koh. The The The A The The The A A
'The Constitution in 2020' is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. The book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language.