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Introduction: imperfection and amendability / Sanford Levinson -- How many times has the United States Constitution been amended? (A) <26; (B) 26; (C) 27; (D) >27: accounting for constitutional change / Sanford Levinson -- Constitutionalism in the United States: from theory to politics / Stephen M. Griffin -- Higher lawmaking / Bruce Ackerman -- Popular sovereignty and constitutional amendment / Akhil Reed Amar -- The plain meaning of Article V / David R. Dow -- Amending the presuppositions of a constitution / Frederick Schauer -- Merlin's memory: the past and future imperfect of the once and future polity / Walter F. Murphy -- The case against implicit limits on the constitutional amending process / John R. Vile -- The "original" Thirteenth Amendment and the limits to formal constitutional change / Mark E. Brandon -- Toward a theory of constitutional amendment / Donald S. Lutz -- The politics of constitutional revision in Eastern Europe / Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein -- Midrash: amendment through the molding of meaning / Noam J. Zohar
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