Base Constitutional Communities: Lessons from Liberation Theology for Democratic Constitutionalism

the democratic legitimacy of constitutional law. author. J.D. 2023, Yale Law School; M.T.S. 2015, Harvard Divinity School; A.B. 2013, Brown University

a wide variety of different ideas and ideals. Fallon’s observation about legitimacy’s muddle opened a taxonomic ac- count of legitimacy in three

Americans can play a direct role in constitutional in- terpretation, thereby improving the democratic legitimacy of constitutional law. author. J.D. 2023

Forum: Justice Sotomayor and the Jurisprudence of Procedural Justice

on the foundations of popular legitimacy demonstrating that perceived procedural justice of the Court most strongly shapes it. Social science

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consistent with research on the foundations of popular legitimacy demonstrating that perceived procedural justice of the Court most strongly shapes it

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series of other bases for legitimacy: expertise and the ability to promote social welfare; the order and stability provided by the rule of law; checks

stitutional have endowed those practices with political legitimacy” that is at least presumptively determinative.91 As I have discussed elsewhere, a

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strikes through the lens of democratic legitimacy helps us to understand previously un- justified features of peremptory strikes—including the

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