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Response to Daniel Carpenter's review of A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution
Ist Teil von
Perspectives on Politics, 2012-09, Vol.10 (3), p.796-797
Ort / Verlag
New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
We appreciate Dan Carpenter's thoughtful assessment of our book and are eager to respond to his reflections about the political theory of the republic of statutes. He is right that we did not discuss some highly entrenched statutory schemes that might well deserve small-c constitutional status as superstatutes. Although we do treat the Defense of Marriage Act as a superstatute in our chapter on the antihomosexual constitution and its disentrenchment, we might have included a chapter on the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act of 1938 (along with the many subsequent amendments that helped shape the drug enforcement regime we have today) if we had as many original things to say about the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) administrative constitutionalism as Carpenter did in his book. It would have been a big chapter, too.