Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution – serie
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American Sovereigns
The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American …
Conservatives and the Constitution
Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism
Häftad, 2019
508 kr
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Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional restoration and redemption within the broader …
Conservatives and the Constitution
Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism
Inbunden, 2019
1393 kr
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Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional restoration and redemption within the broader …
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
Häftad, 2008
435 kr
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Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate …
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
Inbunden, 2006
619 kr
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Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate …
American Sovereigns
The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
Inbunden, 2007
1375 kr
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American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American …
Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2011
1563 kr
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American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in …
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation
Inbunden, 2012
1391 kr
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The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who declared Burr guilty without the benefit of …
World War I and the American Constitution
Inbunden, 2017
1022 kr
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The First World War profoundly affected the American political system by transforming constitutional law and providing the predicate for the modern administrative state. In this groundbreaking study, William G. Ross examines the social, political, economic and legal forces that generated this rapid …
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation
Häftad, 2012
401 kr
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The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who declared Burr guilty without the benefit of …
Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2014
557 kr
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American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in …
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding
Inbunden, 2020
1628 kr
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This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates …
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding
Häftad, 2022
569 kr
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This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates …
