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| − | Cass | + | [[Cass Sunstein]], [[Harvard Law School]] and Administrator, [[Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs]] (OIRA) |
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| − | Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School | + | [[Frank Michelman]], [[Harvard Law School]] |
| − | 6. Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain: Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy | + | 6. ''Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain: Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy''<br> |
| − | William | + | [[William Forbath]], [[University of Texas]] |
7. State Action in 2020 | 7. State Action in 2020 | ||
Revision as of 21:06, 2 April 2011
The Constitution 2020 movement is based upon The Constitution in 2020, a book published by Oxford University Press that is a powerful blueprint for implementing a Marxist vision of constitutional law in the years ahead and that is written by progressives. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in a progressive manner. Featuring some of America's so-called finest legal minds - Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark Tushnet, Yochai Benkler and Richard Ford, among others - the book tackles a wide range of issues, including the challenge of new technologies, presidential power, international human rights, religious liberty, freedom of speech, voting, reproductive rights and economic rights. The Constitution in 2020 calls on liberals to articulate their constitutional vision in a way that can command the confidence of ordinary Americans and sway them to the progressive side of dogma. It is a propaganda piece laid out in painstaking and alarming detail.[1]
Table of Contents in The Constitution for 2020
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Constitution in 2020
Jack Balkin, Yale Law School and Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
I. Interpreting Our Constitution
2. Fidelity to Text and Principle
Jack Balkin
3. Democratic Constitutionalism
Robert Post, Yale Law School and Reva Siegel
II. Social Rights and Legislative Constitutionalism
4. The Minimalist Constitution
Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School and Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
5. Economic Power and the Constitution
Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School
6. Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain: Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy
William Forbath, University of Texas
7. State Action in 2020 Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
8. The Missing Jurisprudence of the Legislated Constitution Robin West, Georgetown University Law Center
9. Remembering How to Do Equality Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel
III. Citizenship and Community
10. The Citizenship Agenda Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School
11. National Citizenship and the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity Goodwin Liu, University of California at Berkeley
12. Terms of Belonging Rachel F. Moran, University of California (Irvine and Berkeley), and President, Association of American Law Schools
13. Hopeless Constitutionalism, Hopeful Pragmatism Richard T. Ford, Stanford Law School
IV. Democracy and Civil Liberties
14. Voting Rights and the Third Reconstruction Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford Law School
15. Political Organization and the Future of Democracy Larry Kramer, Dean, Stanford Law School
16. A Progressive Perspective on Freedom of Speech Robert C. Post
17. Information, Structures, and the Constitution of American Society Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
18. The Constitution in the National Surveillance State Jack M. Balkin
19. The Progressive Past Tracey L. Meares, Yale Law School
V. Protecting Religious Diversity
20. The Framers' Church-State Problem—and Ours Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
21. Progressives, the Religion Clauses, and the Limits of Secularism William P. Marshall, University of North Carolina
VI. Families and Values
22. A Liberal Vision of U.S. Family Law in 2020 William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School
23. A Progressive Reproductive Rights Agenda for 2020 Dawn E. Johnsen, Indiana University at Bloomington and nominee, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
VII. State, Nation, World
24. What's Federalism For? Judith Resnik, Yale Law School
25. Progressive Constitutionalism and Transnational Legal Discourse Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center
26. "Strategies of the Weak": Thinking Globally and Acting Locally toward a Progressive Constitutional Vision David Cole, David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
27. America and the World, 2020 Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale Law School and nominee, Legal Adviser, State Department.
Book Reviews
- "For a generation, conservatives have dominated our constitutional conversation. Now as a new day dawns, this inspiring book recaptures a progressive vision of a Constitution that can fulfill the country's oldest commitments to a robust and inclusive democracy." Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey[1]
- "For much too long, progressive thinkers have been either responding reflexively to agendas set by the right, or wringing their hands over the absence of constructive options of their own. This volume marks the end of that time in the wilderness. Constitutional progressives who read this book's veritable cornucopia of carefully conceived alternatives are bound to be energized by the vistas opened here - and challenged by the puzzles posed in every sparkling chapter." Laurence Tribe, author of The Invisible Constitution[1]
External Links
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 About the Book The Constitution in 2020 (accessed 04/02/11)