Responding to Imperfection:
The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment
Edited by Sanford Levinson

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Imperfection and Amendability	3
2	How Many Times Has the United States Constitution Been Amended? (A) < 26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) > 27: Accounting for Constitutional Change	13
3	Constitutionalism in the United States: From Theory to Politics	37
4	Higher Lawmaking	63
5	Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Amendment	89
6	The Plain Meaning of Article V	117
7	Amending the Presuppositions of a Constitution	145
8	Merlin's Memory: The Past and Future Imperfect of the Once and Future Polity	163
9	The Case against Implicit Limits on the Constitutional Amending Process	191
10	The "Original" Thirteenth Amendment and the Limits to Formal Constitutional Change	215
11	Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment	237
12	The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Eastern Europe	275
13	Midrash: Amendment through the Molding of Meaning	307
	Appendix: Amending Provisions of Selected New Constitutions in Eastern Europe	319
	Contributors	325
	Index	327

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