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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2022
      October 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009246811
      9781009246835
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009246811
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 254 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
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    Subjects:
    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
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    It is well known that the US Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times since its creation in 1787, but that number does not reflect the true extent of constitutional change in America. Although the Constitution is globally recognized as a written text, it consists also of unwritten rules and principles that are just as important, such as precedents, customs, traditions, norms, presuppositions, and more. These, too, have been amended, but how does that process work? In this book, leading scholars of law, history, philosophy, and political science consider the many theoretical, conceptual, and practical dimensions of what it means to amend America's 'unwritten Constitution': how to change the rules, who may legitimately do it, why leaders may find it politically expedient to enact written instead of unwritten amendments, and whether anything is lost by changing the constitution without a codified constitutional amendment.

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