The Least Examined Branch

Foreword Amy Guttman; Introduction Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana; Part I. Legislatures and Democratic Theory: 1. Principles of legislation Jeremy Waldron; 2. An exact epitome of the people Russell Hardin; 3. Political accountability, proxy accountability, and the democratic legitamacy of legislatures Jane S. Schacter; 4. Constitutionalism, trade legislation, and 'democracy' Chantal Thomas; Part II. Legislating and Deliberating in the Democratic Legislature: 5. Legislative judgment and the enlarged mentality: taking religious perspectives Jennifer Nedelsky; 6. Should we value legislative integrity? Andrei Marmor; 7. Nondelegation principles Cass Sunstein; 8. Populism, the legislative process and the Canadian constitution; Part III. Constitution-making by Legislatures: The Explicit Version: 9. Legislatures as constitutent assemblies Jon Elster; 10. Legislatures and the phases and components of constitutionalism Ruth Gavison; 11. Legislatures and constitutional agnosticism Patricia Hughes; 12. Constitutional amendments and the constitutional common law Adrian Vermeule; Part IV. Constitution-Making by Legislatures: The Implicit Version: 13. What do constitutions do that statutes don't (legally speaking)? Frank I. Michelman; 14. Conditions for framework legislation Elizabeth Garrett; 15. Super-statutes: the new American constitutionalism William N. Eskridge, Jr. and John Ferejohn; Part V. Constitutional Interpretation and Application by the Legislature: 16. Interpretation in legislatures and courts: incentives and institutional design Mark Tushnet; 17. Constitutional engagement 'outside the courts' (and 'inside the legislature'): reflections on professional expertise and the ability to engage in constitutional interpretation Sanford Levinson; 18. Legislation as constitutional interpretation: another dialogue Andrée Lajoie with Cécile Bergada and Éric Gélineau; 19. The constitution and congressional committees: 1971–2000 Keith E. Whittington, Neal Devins and Hutch Hicken; Part VI. Is Legislative Constitutionalism Possible?: 20. Democratic decision-making as the first principle of contemporary constitutionalism Jeremy Webber; 21. Legislative constitutionalism in a system of judicial supremacy Daniel A. Farber; 22. Between supremacy and exclusivity Owen Fiss; 23. Legislatures as rule-followers Frederick Schauer; 24. Popular revolution or popular constitutionalism? Reflections on the constitutional politics of Quebec Secession Sujit Choudhry; Part VII. The Legislatures in Dialogue: Domestic and International Contexts: 25. Disobeying parliament? Privative clauses and the rule of law David Dyzenhaus; 26. Look who's talking now: dialogue theory and the return to democracy Andrew Petter; 27. An international community of legislatures? Daphne Barak-Erez; 28. Legislatures in dialogue with one another: dissent, decisions, and the global polity Heather K. Gerken.