Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MICHAEL S. GREVE

Titel

PART TWO Introduction

Ist Teil von

• The Upside-Down Constitution, 2012, p.87

Ort / Verlag

Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• No federal constitutional order implements itself. Its elaboration—the translation of general constitutional commands into abstract-concrete norms that are capable of governing private and official conduct, its adaptation to changing economic and political circumstances—is a sustained work of construction, partly political and partly legal. That elaboration during the nineteenth century is the subject of Part II. No statesman or judge of that formative period consciously thought about “competition” as a constitutional or federalism principle. If the country nonetheless ended up with a fiercely competitive constitutional order, the explanation is not some ruse of competitive reason. Rather, the competitive federal