Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Seidman Louis Michael
    Our Unsettled Ninth Amendment: An Essay on Unenumerated Rights and the Impossibility of Textualism
    in California Law Review , Vol. 98, issue 6 ,  2010 ,  2129-2160
    The Ninth Amendment—our resident anarchic and sarcastic “constitutional jester”—mocks the effort of scholars and judges alike to tame and normalize constitutional law.
The Amendment stubbornly resists control. It stands as a paradoxical, textual monument to the impossibility of textualism, an entrenched, settled instantiation of the inevitability of unsettlement. If it did not exist, constitutional skeptics would have had to invent it. full text available at: http://www.californialawreview.org/articles/our-unsettled-ninth-amendment-an-essay-on-unenumerated-rights-and-the-impossibility-of-textualism
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