Introduction: Zombie (or Dinosaur) Constitutionalism?
The Revival of Nullification and Secession, Sanford Levinson
1. The 21st Century Rediscovery of Nullification and Secession in American Political Rhetoric: Frivolousness Incarnate, or Serious Arguments to Be Wrestled With?, Sanford Levinson
2. How to Maintain a Constitution: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and James Madison’s Struggle With the Problem of Constitutional Maintenance, Jonathan Gienapp
3. Living, Dead, and Undead: Nullification Past and Present, James H. Read and Neal Allen
4. Mariuana, Nullification, and the Checks and Balances Model of Federalism, Ernest A. Young
5. Almost Legal: Disobedience and Partial Nullification in American Constitutional Politics and Law, Mark A. Graber
6. To Kill and Die for the Constitution: Nullification and Insurrectionary Violoence, Jared A. Goldstein
7. Political Facts, Legal Fictions, Mark R. Killenbeck
8. Nullification: Three Comparative Notes, Ran Hirschl
9. Continuity in Secession: The Case of the Confederate Constitution, Alison L. LaCroix
10. The Logic and Design of a Low-Commitment Constitution (Or, How to Stop Worrying About the Right to Secede), Zachary Elkins
11. Secession, Transnational Precedents, and Constitutional Silences, Vicki C. Jackson
12. Secession as a Problem in Negotiation, Mark Tushnet
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