Donald S Lutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald S Lutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lutz |
| SIGNATURE | LUTZ D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ross M. Lence
On July 11, 2006, our distinguished colleague Ross M. Lence passed away. Ross had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August of 2005, and even in his most difficult moments this last year, he continued to grace our lives with his good cheer and to engage in that activity he most loved, teaching
Why Federalism
Thinking About Constitutionalism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
At the beginning of a new century, constitutional democracy seems ascendant almost to the point of a universal inevitability. What follows is in part a cautionary tale and in part an assessment of where we now stand in one of history's most hopeful long-term trends. An examination of the diffusion of constitutional democracy, and of general trends in cross-national constitutional developments since World War II, leads to a consideration of the ma…
The Iroquois Confederation Constitution
The Iroquois Confederation was not an influence on the U.S. Constitution, but it is worthy of study as an independently developed political system with the oldest surviving constitution in North America. A systematic institutional analysis of the Great Binding Law, the orally transmitted constitution of the Confederation, reveals, among other things: tribal inequality despite their formal equality under a unanimity rule; a high level of responsiv…
Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment
Constitutional design proceeds under the assumption that institutions have predictable consequences, but modern political science has not pursued the empirical verification of these predicted consequences with much vigor. I shall attempt to link the theoretical premises underlying one important aspect of constitutional design, the amendment process, with the empirical patterns revealed by a systematic, comparative study of constitutions. An exami…
A Preface to American Political Theory
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630-1789
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789: The Legacy for Contemporary Politics. By Joshua Miller. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. xii + 154 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-271-00744-3.) Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1575–1576, …
A Preface to American Political Theory
It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?" In short, it doesn't provide an overview of the content, development, or major conclusions of American…
A Preface to American Political Theory
Donald Lutz begins A Preface to American Political Theory by explaining what the book doesn't do. It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?" In s…
The State Constitutional Pedigree of the U.S. Bill of Rights
A direct comparison between the U.S. Bill of Rights and prominent English common law documents shows that the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution have only a limited relationship to English antecedents. Nor were the amendment proposals by the state ratifying conventions the primary source of the U.S. Bill of Rights. Instead, this famous addition to the federal Constitution was a summary of the common core found in the seven existing sta…
Understanding Eighteenth-Century Constitutionalism
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Journal Article Constitutionalism and Democracy. Ed. by Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad. New York, Essays on Liberty and Federalism: The Shaping of the U.S. Constitution. By John M. Murrin, David E. Narrett, Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, and Michael Kammen. College Station and The Origins of American Constitutionalism. By Donald S. Lutz. Baton Rouge Get access Richard B. Bernstein Richard B. Bernstein New York City Commission on the Bicentennial of the C…
Principles of the Constitutional Order
Journal Article Principles of the Constitutional Order: The Ratification Debates. Ed. by Robert L. Utley, Jr., and Patricia B. Gray. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1989. x + 187 pp. Cloth, $24.75; paper, $12.50.) Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 654–655, https://doi.or…
The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic
Journal Article The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 20, Issue 1, Winter 1990, Pages 55–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037862 Published: 01 January 1990
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
The Declaration of Independence As Part of an American National Compact
Journal Article The Declaration of Independence As Part of an American National Compact Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 19, Issue 1, Winter 1989, Pages 41–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037772 Published: 01 January 1989
A Machine that would go of Itself
Inventing the People
The United States Constitution as an Incomplete Text
Viewing the Constitution of the United States of America as a political text leads to the application of techniques of textual analysis when reading it. Textual analysis shows the Constitution to be incomplete, both as a constitution and as a founding instrument of the federal union. A complete text of a constitution for the United States requires inclusion of the state constitutions, and a complete text of a founding instrument for the United St…
An Historical Conversation Habits of the Heart
American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760-1805
These volumes provide a selection of seventy-six essays, pamphlets, speeches, and letters to newspapers written between 1760 and 1805 by American political and religious leaders. Many are obscure pieces that were previously available only in larger research libraries. But all illuminate the founding of the American republic and are essential reading for students and teachers of American political thought. The second volume includes an annotated b…
American Political Writing during the Founding Era, 1760-1805
The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought
Drawing upon a comprehensive list of political writings by Americans published between 1760 and 1805, the study uses a citation count drawn from these 916 items as a surrogate measure of the relative influence of European writers upon American political thought during the era. Contrary to the general tendencies in the recent literature, the results here indicate that there was no one European writer, or one tradition of writers, that dominated Am…
Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment
Constitutional design proceeds under the assumption that institutions have predictable consequences, but modern political science has not pursued the empirical verification of these predicted consequences with much vigor. I shall attempt to link the theoretical premises underlying one important aspect of constitutional design, the amendment process, with the empirical patterns revealed by a systematic, comparative study of constitutions. An exami…
The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought
Drawing upon a comprehensive list of political writings by Americans published between 1760 and 1805, the study uses a citation count drawn from these 916 items as a surrogate measure of the relative influence of European writers upon American political thought during the era. Contrary to the general tendencies in the recent literature, the results here indicate that there was no one European writer, or one tradition of writers, that dominated Am…
American Political Writing during the Founding Era, 1760-1805
From Covenant to Constitution in American Political Thought
Journal Article From Covenant to Constitution in American Political Thought Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 10, Issue 4, Fall 1980, Pages 101–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037326 Published: 01 January 1980
The United States Constitution as an Incomplete Text
Viewing the Constitution of the United States of America as a political text leads to the application of techniques of textual analysis when reading it. Textual analysis shows the Constitution to be incomplete, both as a constitution and as a founding instrument of the federal union. A complete text of a constitution for the United States requires inclusion of the state constitutions, and a complete text of a founding instrument for the United St…
The Purposes of American State Constitutions
Journal Article The Purposes of American State Constitutions Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 1982, Pages 27–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037385 Published: 01 January 1982
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic
Journal Article The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 20, Issue 1, Winter 1990, Pages 55–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037862 Published: 01 January 1990
Redistricting Decisions in the American States
This research tests Riker's minimal winning coalition hypothesis in cases of redistricting in the American states. The authors contend these cases satisfy particularly well the conditions under which the hypothesis should hold, and thus they provide a strong test of the size principle. An examination of cases since 1900 did not provide much support for the hypothesis. Most redistricting plans were approved by rather large majorities, and even whe…
Thinking About Constitutionalism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
At the beginning of a new century, constitutional democracy seems ascendant almost to the point of a universal inevitability. What follows is in part a cautionary tale and in part an assessment of where we now stand in one of history's most hopeful long-term trends. An examination of the diffusion of constitutional democracy, and of general trends in cross-national constitutional developments since World War II, leads to a consideration of the ma…
Coalition Formation in the Texas Legislature
The Iroquois Confederation Constitution
The Iroquois Confederation was not an influence on the U.S. Constitution, but it is worthy of study as an independently developed political system with the oldest surviving constitution in North America. A systematic institutional analysis of the Great Binding Law, the orally transmitted constitution of the Confederation, reveals, among other things: tribal inequality despite their formal equality under a unanimity rule; a high level of responsiv…
Recruitment to the Houston City Council
The State Constitutional Pedigree of the U.S. Bill of Rights
A direct comparison between the U.S. Bill of Rights and prominent English common law documents shows that the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution have only a limited relationship to English antecedents. Nor were the amendment proposals by the state ratifying conventions the primary source of the U.S. Bill of Rights. Instead, this famous addition to the federal Constitution was a summary of the common core found in the seven existing sta…
The Pentagon Papers. Neil Sheehan , E. W. Kenworthy , Fox Butterfield , Hedrick Smith
Recruitment to the Houston City Council
Redistricting Decisions in the American States
This research tests Riker's minimal winning coalition hypothesis in cases of redistricting in the American states. The authors contend these cases satisfy particularly well the conditions under which the hypothesis should hold, and thus they provide a strong test of the size principle. An examination of cases since 1900 did not provide much support for the hypothesis. Most redistricting plans were approved by rather large majorities, and even whe…
Coalition Formation in the Texas Legislature
The Theory of Consent in the Early State Constitutions
The Theory of Consent in the Early State Constitutions Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 9, Issue 2, Spring 1979, Pages 11–42, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038543 Published: 01 January 1979
From Covenant to Constitution in American Political Thought
Journal Article From Covenant to Constitution in American Political Thought Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 10, Issue 4, Fall 1980, Pages 101–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037326 Published: 01 January 1980
Popular Consent and Popular Control
Populism. Margaret Canovan
The Purposes of American State Constitutions
Journal Article The Purposes of American State Constitutions Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 1982, Pages 27–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037385 Published: 01 January 1982
The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought
Drawing upon a comprehensive list of political writings by Americans published between 1760 and 1805, the study uses a citation count drawn from these 916 items as a surrogate measure of the relative influence of European writers upon American political thought during the era. Contrary to the general tendencies in the recent literature, the results here indicate that there was no one European writer, or one tradition of writers, that dominated Am…
American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760-1805
These volumes provide a selection of seventy-six essays, pamphlets, speeches, and letters to newspapers written between 1760 and 1805 by American political and religious leaders. Many are obscure pieces that were previously available only in larger research libraries. But all illuminate the founding of the American republic and are essential reading for students and teachers of American political thought. The second volume includes an annotated b…
American Political Writing during the Founding Era, 1760-1805
An Historical Conversation Habits of the Heart
The United States Constitution as an Incomplete Text
Viewing the Constitution of the United States of America as a political text leads to the application of techniques of textual analysis when reading it. Textual analysis shows the Constitution to be incomplete, both as a constitution and as a founding instrument of the federal union. A complete text of a constitution for the United States requires inclusion of the state constitutions, and a complete text of a founding instrument for the United St…
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
The Declaration of Independence As Part of an American National Compact
Journal Article The Declaration of Independence As Part of an American National Compact Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 19, Issue 1, Winter 1989, Pages 41–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037772 Published: 01 January 1989
A Machine that would go of Itself
Inventing the People
Understanding Eighteenth-Century Constitutionalism
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Journal Article Constitutionalism and Democracy. Ed. by Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad. New York, Essays on Liberty and Federalism: The Shaping of the U.S. Constitution. By John M. Murrin, David E. Narrett, Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, and Michael Kammen. College Station and The Origins of American Constitutionalism. By Donald S. Lutz. Baton Rouge Get access Richard B. Bernstein Richard B. Bernstein New York City Commission on the Bicentennial of the C…
Principles of the Constitutional Order
Journal Article Principles of the Constitutional Order: The Ratification Debates. Ed. by Robert L. Utley, Jr., and Patricia B. Gray. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1989. x + 187 pp. Cloth, $24.75; paper, $12.50.) Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 654–655, https://doi.or…
The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic
Journal Article The Articles of Confederation as the Background to the Federal Republic Get access Donald S. Lutz Donald S. Lutz University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 20, Issue 1, Winter 1990, Pages 55–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037862 Published: 01 January 1990
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
A Preface to American Political Theory
It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?" In short, it doesn't provide an overview of the content, development, or major conclusions of American…
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