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ON CONSTITUTIONAL DISOBEDIENCE 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD ii 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM other books in the series: Not a Suicide Pact Th e Constitution in a Time of National Emergency Richard A. Posner Supreme Neglect How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property Richard A. Epstein Out of Range Why the Constitution Can’t End the Battle over Guns Mark V. Tushnet Unfi nished Business Racial Equality in American History Michael J. Klarman Is Th ere a Right to Remain Silent? Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11 Alan M. Dershowitz Th e Invisible Constitution Laurence H. Tribe Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open A Free Press for a New Century Lee C. Bollinger From Disgust to Humanity Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law Martha C. Nussbaum Th e Living Constitution David A. Strauss Keeping Faith with the Constitution Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, Christopher H. Schroeder Cosmic Constitutional Th eory J. Harvie Wilkinson III 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD iiii 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM I N A L I E N A B L E R I G H T S S E R I E S . . . series editor Geoff rey R. Stone Lee C. Bollinger Michael W. McConnell President Richard and Frances Mallery Professor Columbia University of Law Stanford Law School Alan M. Dershowitz Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Harvard Law School Martha C. Nussbaum Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor, Philosophy, Law, Divinity, Richard A. Epstein South Asian Studies Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law The University of Chicago New York University School of Law Richard A. Posner Pamela S. Karlan Judge Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor U.S. Court of Appeals for the of Public Interest Law Seventh Circuit Stanford Law School Jack N. Rakove Alexander Keyssar William Robertson Coe Professor of Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and American Studies History and Social Policy Stanford University JFK School of Government, Harvard University Christopher H. Schroeder Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law Michael J. Klarman Duke Law School Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and History Harvard Law School Stephen J. Schulhofer Robert B. McKay Professor of Law New York University School of Law Larry D. Kramer Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean Geoffrey R. Stone Stanford Law School Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor University of Chicago Law School Lawrence Lessig Edmund J. Safra Professor of Law Kathleen M. Sullivan Harvard Law School Stanley Morrison Professor of Law Stanford Law School Goodwin Liu Justice Laurence H. Tribe California Supreme Court Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Law Harvard Law School 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD iiiiii 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM Mark V. Tushnet J. Harvie Wilkinson William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Judge Law U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Harvard Law School Circuit Geoffrey Stone and Oxford University Press gratefully acknowledge the interest and support of the following organizations in the Inalienable Rights series: The American Library Association The Chicago Humanities Festival The American Bar Association The National Constitution Center The National Archives 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD iivv 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM On Constitutional Disobedience . . . L ouis M ichael S eidman 1 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD vv 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. 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Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seidman, Louis Michael. On constitutional disobedience / Louis Michael Seidman. p. cm. — (Inalienable rights series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–989827–5 (hardback) 1. Constitutional law—United States—Philosophy. 2. Constitutional law— United States—Interpretation and construction. I. Title. KF4550.S375 2013 342.73001—dc23 2012023032 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD vvii 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM For Judy Mazo 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD vviiii 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD vviiiiii 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM Contents . . . Editor’s Note xi introduction The Gaudy Contradictions of American Constitutionalism 3 chapter one The Argument Briefl y Stated 11 chapter two Obedience over Time 29 chapter three The Banality of Constitutional Violation 63 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD iixx 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0000 PPMM contents chapter four Disobedience and Freedom 93 chapter five Ordinary Laws and Extraordinary Arguments 117 conclusion The Way Forward 139 Acknowledgments 145 Sources 149 [ x ] 00000011558822008866..IINNDDDD xx 77//2200//22001122 11::5566::0011 PPMM
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