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"Here, the People Rule": A Constitutional Populist Manifesto
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"Here, the People Rule": A Constitutional Populist Manifesto Paperback - 1998

by Richard D. Parker

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Democracy--its aspirations, its dangers--is what, most fundamentally, our Constitution is about. The question, Richard Parker argues in this powerful book, is how to imagine our democracy. Provocative in style and substance, this manifesto challenges orthodoxies of constitutional legal studies, particularly the idea that constitutionalism and populist democracy stand opposed. Parker presents a populist argument. He contends that the mission of constitutional law should be to promote, not limit, the expression of ordinary political energy--thus to extend, rather than constrain, majority rule.

At the root of the matter, Parker finds a question of "sensibility"--assumptions and attitudes about the political energy of ordinary people. He approaches this sensibility in a novel way, through a work of fiction about politics, Thomas Mann's Mario and the Magician. Offering two "takes" on the story, Parker shows how it evokes--and elucidates--our deepest, most problematic attitudes about popular political energy in our own democracy. He goes on to elaborate these attitudes within our practice of constitutional argument. This is a book about the people, and for the people, a reimagination of constitutional law's populist potential. It will disorient--then reorient--the thinking of everyone who is concerned about democracy and the Constitution.

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'Even those of us who disagree with some of Parker's arguments should welcome his central point: that is is neither desirable nor possible in a democracy to find permanent bypasses around public opinion on the most important public issues.' --U.S. Representative Barney Frank

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  • Title "Here, the People Rule": A Constitutional Populist Manifesto
  • Author Richard D. Parker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1998-08-05
  • ISBN 9780674389267 / 0674389263
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.44 x 5.04 x 0.42 in (18.90 x 12.80 x 1.07 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94-2387
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.8

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