Introduction: The Question of Legitimacy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Question of Legitimacy vii
4. PART ONE. The Rule of Law? 1
5. 1. An Unreasonable Reaction to a Reasonable Decision 3
6. 2. Not as Bad as Plessy. Worse 20
7. 3. eroG .v hsuB: Through the Looking Glass 39
8. 4. In Partial (but not Partisan) Praise of Principle 67
9. 5. The Fallibility of Reason 84
10. 6. Sustaining the Premise of Legality: Learning to Live with Bush v. Gore 96
11. 7. Can the Rule of Law Survive Bush v. Gore? 110
12. PART TWO. Political Questions
13. 8. A Political Question 129
14. 9. Political Questions and the Hazards of Pragmatism 145
15. 10. The Conservatism in Bush v. Gore 163
16. 11. Does the Constitution Enact the Republican Party Platform? Beyond Bush v. Gore 177
17. 12. O√ Balance 192
18. 13. Legitimacy and the 2000 Election 210
19. Contributors 229
20. Index 231