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Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People
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Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People
von: Jamin B. Raskin
Routledge, 2003
ISBN: 9780203509210
307 Seiten, Download: 1929 KB
 
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  Dedication 5  
  CONTENTS 6  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7  
  CHAPTER ONE The Supreme Court and America’s Democracy Deficit 12  
  CHAPTER TWO The Court Supreme 22  
     A Political Question Raised by a Candidate with no Standing 24  
     Vote-Counting as Injury 28  
     What If It Had Been Gore v. Bush? 31  
     Bush v. Gore and the Dred Scott Decision: Which One’s Worse? 34  
     Hypocrisy or Reaction? 36  
  CHAPTER THREE Reading Democracy Out 40  
     The Missing Right to Vote in House and Senate Elections: Disenfranchisement in the District 42  
     Territorial Subjects: The People of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, and Guam 45  
     Former Felons 47  
     From Visionary to Laggard: America’s Missing Right to Vote in International Context 49  
     A Right-to-Vote Amendment 52  
     The Majority’s Missing Rlght to Rule 54  
     The Temporary “Vote Trading” Solution to the Problem of the Electoral College 56  
     The Electoral College and Political White Supremacy 65  
     The “Faithless Elector” 70  
     The Obsolete and Empty Arguments for the Electoral College 70  
        History 70  
        Federalism 71  
     The Popular Election of the President Amendment 73  
  CHAPTER FOUR Unequal Protection 77  
     The Voting Rights Act of 1965 77  
     Shaw v. Reno and Miller v. Johnson 81  
     Racial Double Standards 83  
     Paradox and Contradiction 87  
     Political White Supremacy in the Age of “Color Blindness” 93  
     Turning the Fourteenth Amendment Inside Out 97  
  CHAPTER FIVE America’s Signature Exclusion 99  
     States Adding Unconstitutional Qualifications to Federal Officeholding: U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton and Cook v. Gralike 101  
     America’s Self-Appointed Political Establishment: The “Two-Party System” 103  
     The “Two-Party System” as an Empirical Political-Science Finding and Hypothesis 104  
     The “Two-Party System” as a Constitutional Claim 105  
     Dominance a Public Policy Objective and Defining Feature of Election Law... 106  
     The Unconstitutionality of Election Rules Favoring the “Two-Party System” 107  
     No Place on the Ballot: How Alternative Parties Are Suppressed 108  
     America’s Signature Fetish: Jenness v. Fortson 110  
     Cleansing and Gerrymandering the Ballot: The Court’s Disoriented Treatment of Ballot-Access Restrictions 112  
     Alleged State Interests in Cleansing the Ballot 114  
        Avoiding Confusion 114  
        Deception 117  
        Frustration of the Democratic Process 118  
        Some Preliminary Showing of a Modicum of Support 118  
           Avoiding the Presence of “Frivolous Candidacies” 119  
     Confusion about Fusion: Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party 120  
     Taking John Anderson’s Case Seriously 123  
  CHAPTER SIX “Arrogant Orwellian Bureaucrats” 125  
      The Special Interests10... 128  
     The Electoral-Industrial Complex: How the Commission on Presidential Debates Took Control 132  
     The 2000 Presidential Election and the Anheuser-Bush-Gore Debates 136  
     What’s Wrong with Debate Genymandering? The Fallacies of “Viability” and “Cacophony” 140  
        The “Viability” Test Reflects Viewpoint Discrimination 140  
        Why Don’t Democrats and Republicans Have to Be “Viable”? 141  
        Elections Serve Purposes Broader than Certifying the Candidate with the Most Votes on Election Day 144  
     The Cacophony Alibi 145  
     Corporate Democracy: What Is to Be Done? 148  
  CHAPTER SEVEN Schooling for Democracy 150  
     The Democracy of Everyday Life 150  
     West Virginia v. Barnette, Tinker v. Des Moines School District and the Right to Think for Yourself in School 154  
     The Lost Promise of Integration and Equality: Plessy, Brown, and Beyond 161  
        Constitutionalizing Custom: Plessy v. Ferguson 162  
        Integrated Learning: Brown v. Board of Education 164  
        Justice Collapsing: Milliken, Rodriguez, Freeman, and Jenkins 166  
     A National Movement for Constitutional Literacy 172  
  CHAPTER EIGHT Democracy and the Corporation 177  
     Are Private Corporations Private? 178  
     The Politics of Public Space: Marsh v. Alabama 180  
     Democracy Gives Way to the Perfect Shopping Environment: The Shopping Mall Cases 182  
     Why Laissez Isn’t Fair: Lochner v. New York and the Hidden Assumptions of Libertarianism 185  
     Corporate Power, Human Freedom, and Anti-Discrimination Law 189  
     The Borders of Democracy: First National Bank v. Bellotti, the Tillman Act of 1907 and Corporate Power in Public Elections 191  
     Democracy, Union Elections, and Corporate Speech 200  
  CHAPTER NINE Unflagging Patriotism 204  
     The Cosmetic Patriotism of the Flag Amendment 206  
     Political Repression and the “Living Flag” Fallacy 208  
     How the Court Defined Democratic Rights against Flag-Based Thought Control 213  
     Texas v. Johnson 215  
     What’s the Big Deal? 218  
        Why Do We Need a Flag Amendment? 218  
        Flag Boxers, Barbara Bush’s 1988 Inaugural Gown, and Fourth of July Napkins: What Is “Desecration”? 220  
           Any Use of the Flag for Business Advertising, Clothing, or Household Decor 221  
           Patriotic and Partisan Flag Desecration 222  
           Artistic and Cultural Flag Desecration 223  
           Flag-Stamp Cancellation, Virtual Flag-Burnings, and the Magritte Flag Paradox: What Is “The Flag”? 223  
     Why Not Ban the Confederate Flag? Taking Treasonous Flag Semiotics Seriously 225  
  CHAPTER TEN Democracy Rising 227  
     A Movement for a New Constitution 228  
     Who’s Afraid to Amend the Constitution? 231  
     A Movement for Democratic Political Reform under the Constitution 233  
        Representing Everyone: Proportional Representation 233  
        Replacing the “Wealth Primary” with the “Clean Money” Option 238  
        Noncitizen Voting 242  
     Conclusion: Unpacking the Court 243  
  NOTES 246  
     Chapter One: The Supreme Court and America’s Democracy Deficit 246  
     Chapter Two: The Court Supreme 248  
     Chapter Three: Reading Democracy Out 251  
     Chapter Four: Unequal Protection 257  
     Chapter Five: America’s Signature Exclusion: 265  
     Chapter Six: “Arrogant Orwellian Bureaucrats” 268  
     Chapter Seven: Schooling for Democracy 274  
     Chapter Eight: Democracy and the Corporation 276  
     Chapter Nine: Unflagging Patriotism 280  
     Chapter Ten: Democracy Rising 283  
  INDEX 287  
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