... to the thought of Rawls. Despite notable differences from Rawls and each other in their respective takes on the moral call to democracy, we find participation in these ideas from Bruce Ackerman, Ronald Dworkin, and Jürgen Habermas. Ackerman relies on them to show a country’s people as self-governing despite...

... that are affected by certain policies should have a say in their formation and implementation. The chapter then moves on to discuss how deliberative democratic theory came about through the promotion of Deliberation Day by Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin. The chapter analyzes the flaws in deliberative democracy...

...This chapter presents an interview with Bruce Ackerman, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. He is recognized for his work in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. Ackerman is a preeminent liberal theorist. His work comes out...

...This chapter provides a glimpse of how Bruce Ackerman, a Yale-educated professor, attempts to use originalism to entrench Warren Court precedents and to protect them against a potential Republican revolution. He calls himself a constitutional dualist, by which he means that the Constitution...

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... not affirm in the referendum. Bruce Ackerman said to me, speaking very much like a scientific policy maker, “A society should try to get its values in order.” I answered him that I thought that as to any number of fundamental things, a society that placed values in order would be a totalitarian...

... and canvasses four popular types of approach to resolving it, including those endorsed by theorists such as Ronald Dworkin, John Hart Ely, Alexander Bickel, and Bruce Ackerman. It then outlines the influential version of the countermajoritarian critique articulated by Jeremy Waldron and presents a dispute...

... Bruce Ackerman's expanded understanding of constitutional development to argue that much of the vision necessary to achieve an environmental constitutionalism was already written into the framework of modern environmental law, before that vision was untimely forgotten. environmental consitutionalism...

...This chapter examines Bruce Ackerman's approach to compensating the disabled and Philippe Van Parijs's adaptation of Ackerman's approach. It first considers Ackerman's two-part principle of Neutrality and his illustration of the operation of this principle by imagining a group of space explorers...

... of Hannah Arendt and Bruce Ackerman and with reference to the creation of the U.S. Constitution, I define extraordinary adaptation as the repurposing, bending, and reinterpreting of legal rules and institutions. The violation creates the space to initiate the creation of a new constitution...

... section three breakthroughs of Rawls’s paradigm are reconstructed: (i) the normative twist impressed by him on Bruce Ackerman’s ‘democratic dualism’, (ii) the liberal principle of legitimacy or ‘legitimation by constitution’, and (iii) the standard of ‘the most reasonable’ and its innovative quality...

...This chapter delves deeper into the American political theory of constitution making by exploring the ideas of Bruce Ackerman and Stephen Holmes. Their work stands out as interesting because of their efforts in addressing creatively the problems, successes, and failures of constitution making...

... and considers moral intuition as well as the relationship between disability and welfare, the problem of aggregation, and the distribution of life. It looks at three of the most prominent resource egalitarians—John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Bruce Ackerman—and shows that each had to modify their theories...

.... This article deals with judicial politics and considers modeling in twenty-first-century judicial scholarship, along with personal policy preferences in the exercise of decisional choice. It also discusses the views of three leading legal philosophers: Ronald Dworkin, Bruce Ackerman, and Howard Gillman...

... Bruce Ackerman’s career move. In fall 1964, Bruce Ackerman—who would go on to become a leading constitutional scholar—showed up at Yale. He was assigned Professor Ralph Sharp Brown as his small group teacher. ²³ Bruce remembered Brown as having “absolutely nothing to say about...

... for persons common good dignity equality liberty John Rawls Jean-Jacques Rousseau Bruce Ackerman Philip Pettit Public reason is an ideal which concretizes, in some special contexts (especially, in lawmaking) a broader value of a common good. But what is common good, and how exactly can we go about...

... restraint Michelman Tushnet Mark Bellamy Richard Presidency of the United States California Congress of the United States Wyoming Trump Donald Bruce Ackerman dualist democracy John Rawls judicial review originalism political legitimacy reasonable pluralism Jeremy Waldron A new twist has been...

... Board of Education Thayerian idea Ackerman Bruce Hand Learned New Deal Wechsler Herbert Due Process Clause Fourteenth Amendment Blight economic development Ronald Dworkin Bruce Ackerman popular constitutionalism living constitution common law constitutionalism holdout The Supreme Court’s...

... or exclusion of future generations, and how this case illuminates a general problem for constructivist contractualism. contractualism future generation constructivism intergenerational justice John Rawls Bruce Ackerman A principle of distributive justice has to tell us, among other things, to whom...

... concerned with the distribution of speech rights have overtly offered a more egalitarian free speech approach. They include Jürgen Habermas, Bruce Ackerman, and Ronald Dworkin. Buckley v Valeo egalitarian equality xi–xii free speech jurisprudence Holmes Oliver Wendell libertarianism Meiklejohn...