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Unpublished Paper
Constructing Constitutional Politics: the Reconstruction Strategy for Protecting Rights
Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
9-1-2013
Keywords
- constitutional theory
Disciplines
Citation Information
Mark A. Graber. "Constructing Constitutional Politics: the Reconstruction Strategy for Protecting Rights" (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark_graber/61/
Author's Comment: This is very much a work in progress in which too much progress has been made (the awful length) and not enough progress has been made (lots is still underdeveloped). As with a great many works that suffer from these deficiencies, I apologize for the incomplete footnotes, the numerous typos (I am still at the stage where every time I identify one typo, I create two more in the fixing process), and horrible repetition in part because I still have not figured out where everything goes. I nevertheless hope that the pages below makes some sense and are not too painful to read. I would particularly appreciate advice on whether this is a paper, whether I should just write the book (presently entitled Out of Phase: Constitutional Values, Constitutional Politics and the Fourteenth Amendment) or discover where in Charlottesville I am allowed to build a large fire.
For those interested in the appropriate mercy rule, you could probably just read the first 14 pages, or pages 30-98.