Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law

Kersch, Ken I.

ISBN 10: 0521811783 / ISBN 13: 9780521811781

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

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This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 647. . 2004. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521811783
• ISBN 13: 9780521811781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This account of the development of the Supreme Court's modern civil liberties and rights jurisprudence argues that the courts' supposed "new concern" for "personal freedoms" (after the New Deal) actually developed as the outgrowth of a sequence of highly particular progressive-reformist ideological currents that formed the modern American state. The book's theoretically-informed account of key paths of constitutional development thus weaves American political thought, American political development, and constitutional law together.

Book Description

This book is a revisionist account of the development of the Supreme Court's modern civil liberties and civil rights jurisprudence. It explains that jurisprudence not as evincing a new concern on the part of the Court for "personal freedoms" after the New Deal but rather as the outgrowth of a sequence of highly particular progressive-reformist ideological currents, that formed the modern American state. The book thus weaves American political thought, American political development, and constitutional law together in its theoretically-informed account of key paths of constitutional development.