Legislation

by Eskridge, William N., Jr.; Frickey, Philip P.; Garrett, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780314233301
• ISBN10: 031423330X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: West Group

Summary

Contains an introduction to legislation; descriptive and normative theories of legislation, including procedural theories of legislation, pluralism and interest groups, and institutional theories of legislation; Title VII: interpretive issues and political theories, the Supreme Court's decision in Griggs, affirmative action United States Steelworkers of America v. Weber and Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County; legislative drafting; representational structures, structures of legislative deliberation; statutes as a source of public policy in the United States; theories of statutory interpretation; doctrines of statutory interpretation; and the implementation of statutes.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Table of Cases	xxi
An Introduction to Legislation	1	(120)
The Story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Procedures of Statute-Creation	2	(45)
Descriptive and Normative Theories of Legislation	47	(34)
Title VII: Interpretive Issues and Political Theories	81	(40)
Representational Structures	121	(146)
Electoral Structures and Equality Values	123	(66)
Eligibility To Serve in the Legislature	189	(38)
Structures of Campaign Finance	227	(40)
Structures of Legislative Deliberation	267	(114)
Regulating ``Corrupt'' Deliberation	269	(16)
Lobbying	285	(42)
Rules Facilitating Legislative Deliberation	327	(54)
Due Process of Lawmaking	381	(118)
Structural Due Process	382	(35)
The Federal Congressional Budget Process	417	(66)
Other Congressional Structures	483	(16)
Direct Democracy as an Alternative to Republican Government	499	(60)
A Brief Overview of Direct Democracy	499	(6)
Popular Lawmaking and the Constitution	505	(42)
Recall	547	(12)
Statutes as a Source of Public Policy in the United States (Theories of Legisprudence)	559	(110)
Statutes as Principled Law (Legisprudence from Blackstone to Legal Process)	560	(39)
Legisprudence and Statutory Doctrine: Vertical versus Horizontal Coherence in Statutory Law	599	(35)
Retroactivity of Statutes	634	(35)
Theories of Statutory Interpretation	669	(148)
From Eclecticism to Systematic Theory, 1892-1938	671	(19)
Legal Process Theories of Interpretation	690	(52)
Current Debates in Statutory Interpretation	742	(75)
Doctrines of Statutory Interpretation	817	(282)
Rules, Presumptions, and Canons of Statutory Interpretation	818	(102)
Extrinsic Sources of Statutory Interpretation	920	(141)
Administrative Referents for Interpretation	1061	(38)
Implementation of Statutes	1099
Law Implementation in the Administrative State	1100	(29)
Congressional Control over Statutory Implementation	1129	(45)
The Supreme Court and the President in Statutory Implementation	1174
Appendices and Index
Appendix A. The Constitution of the United States	1	(18)
Appendix B. The Rehnquit Court's Canons of Statutory Interpretation	19	(8)
Appendix C. Problem on the Interpretation and Constitutionality of Ballot Measures	27	(12)
Index	39