Williams and Rawls in Philadelphia
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DOI: 10.1007/s11158-020-09453-5
Abstract: In A Theory of Justice John Rawls proposes that the two principles of justice should be realized through a four-stage sequence of institutional action that starts with a constitution agreed upon by delegates to a… read more here.
Keywords: rawls philadelphia; williams rawls; constitutional convention; justice ... See more keywords
Should Progressives Fight or Welcome the Republican Effort to Call a Constitutional Convention?
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DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2023.2203057
Abstract: Abstract Recently published, Senator Russ Feingold and Stanford scholar Peter Prindiville’s, The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About it, criticizes a current Republican effort… read more here.
Keywords: constitution; convention; constitutional convention; republican effort ... See more keywords
Sowing the Wind: The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 by Dorothy Overstreet Pratt (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/soh.2019.0141
Abstract: Dorothy Overstreet Pratt’s Sowing the Wind: The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 offers a compelling portrait of an understudied episode in American constitutional and political history. At the 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi’s delegates (white men,… read more here.
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