A New Introduction To American Constitutionalism

Author : Mark A. Graber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190245238

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A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism by Mark A. Graber Pdf

A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism is the first text to study the entirety of American constitutionalism, not just the traces that appear in Supreme Court decisions. Mark A. Graber both explores and offers original answers to such central questions as: What is a Constitution, ? What are fundamental constitutional purposes? How are constitutions interpreted? How is constitutional authority allocated? How to constitutions change? How is the Constitution of the United States influenced by international and comparative law? and, most important, How does the Constitution work? Relying on an historical/institutional perspective, the book illustrates how American constitutionalism is a distinct form of politics, rather than a means from separating politics from law. Constitutions work far more by constructing and constituting politics than by compelling people to do what they would otherwise do. People debate the proper meaning of the first amendment, but these debates are influenced by the rule that all states are equally represented in the Senate and a political culture that in which political dissenters do not fear for their lives. More than any other work on the market, A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism highlights and expands on what a generation for law professors, political scientists and historians have said about the American constitutionalism regime. As such, this is the first truly interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics in the United States.

Author : Mark A. Graber,Howard Gillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 0190686286

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The Complete American Constitutionalism by Mark A. Graber,Howard Gillman Pdf

Author : Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317088639

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New Constitutionalism in Latin America by Almut Schilling-Vacaflor Pdf

Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform. Since the democratic transitions of the 1980s, most countries have amended their constitutions at least once, and some have even undergone constitutional reform several times. The global phenomenon of a new constitutionalism, with enhanced rights provisions, finds expression in the region, but the new constitutions, such as those of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, also have some peculiar characteristics which are discussed in this important book. Authors from a number of different disciplines offer a general overview of constitutional reforms in Latin America since 1990. They explore the historical, philosophical and doctrinal differences between traditional and new constitutionalism in Latin America and examine sources of inspiration. The book also covers sociopolitical settings, which factors and actors are relevant for the reform process, and analyzes the constitutional practices after reform, including the question of whether the recent constitutional reforms created new post-liberal democracies with an enhanced human and social rights record, or whether they primarily serve the ambitions of new political leaders.

Author : Howard Gillman,Mark A. Graber,Keith E. Whittington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 0190299479

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American Constitutionalism by Howard Gillman,Mark A. Graber,Keith E. Whittington Pdf

V. 1. Introduction to American constitutionalism -- The colonial era : before 1776 -- The funding era : 1776-1788 -- The early national era : 1789-1828 -- The Jacksonian era : 1829-1860 -- Secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction : 1861-1876 -- The Republican era : 1877-1932 -- The New Deal and Great Society era : 1933-1968 -- Liberalism divided : 1969-1980 -- The Reagan era : 1981-1993 -- The contemporary era : 1994-present.

Author : Stephen M. Griffin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400822126

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American Constitutionalism by Stephen M. Griffin Pdf

Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by judicial practice in the United States over the past three centuries, particularly since the Warren Court, and locates both theory and practices that have inspired dispute among jurists and scholars in historical context. At the same time he advances an argument about the distinctive nature of our American constitutionalism, regarding it as an instance of the interpenetration of law and politics. American Constitutionalism is unique in considering the perspectives of both law and political science in relation to constitutional theory. Constitutional theories produced by legal scholars do not usually discuss state-centered theories of American politics, the importance of institutions, behaviorist research on judicial decision making, or questions of constitutional reform, but this book takes into account the political science literature on these and other topics. The work also devotes substantial attention to judicial review and its relationship to American democracy and theories of constitutional interpretation.

Author : Johnathan O'Neill
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421444635

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Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal by Johnathan O'Neill Pdf

An intellectual history of American conservativism since the New Deal. The New Deal fundamentally changed the institutions of American constitutional government and, in turn, the relationship of Americans to their government. Johnathan O'Neill's Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal examines how various types of conservative thinkers responded to this significant turning point in the second half of the twentieth century. O'Neill identifies four fundamental transformations engendered by the New Deal: the rise of the administrative state, the erosion of federalism, the ascendance of the modern presidency, and the development of modern judicial review. He then considers how various schools of conservative thought (traditionalists, neoconservatives, libertarians, Straussians) responded to these major changes in American politics and culture. Conservatives frequently argued among themselves, and their responses to the New Deal ranged from adaptation to condemnation to political mobilization. Ultimately, the New Deal pulled American governance and society permanently leftward. Although some of the New Deal's liberal gains have been eroded, a true conservative counterrevolution was never, O'Neill argues, a realistic possibility. He concludes with a plea for conservative thinkers to seriously reconsider the role of Congress—a body that is relatively ignored by conservative intellectuals in favor of the courts and the presidency—in America's constitutional order. Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal explores the scope and significance of conservative constitutional analysis amid the broader field of American political thought.

Author : Mark A. Graber,Howard Gillman
Publisher : Complete American Constitution
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190237622

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The Complete American Constitutionalism by Mark A. Graber,Howard Gillman Pdf

The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience. It provides the analysis, resources, and materials both domestic and foreign readers must understand with regards to the practice of constitutionalism in the United States. This first volume of a projected eight volume set is entitled: Introduction and The Colonial Era. Here the authors provide the building blocks for constitutional analysis with an in-depth exploration of the constitutional conflicts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that formed the overall American constitutional experience. This is the first collection of materials that focuses on the crucial constitutional documents and debates that structured American constitutional understandings at the time of the American Revolution. It details the roots of the common law rights that Americans demanded be respected and the different interpretations of the English constitutional experience that increasingly divided Members of Parliament from American Revolutionaries.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195363111

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Foundations of American Constitutionalism by David A. J. Richards Pdf

In writing the constitution, the Founders combined a Lockean theory of politically legitimate power with the political science they had learned from Machiavelli, Harrington, Hume, and Montesquieu to articulate a new conception of constitutional argument. Examining the Founders' humanist analytical methods and working assumptions, this book combines history, political philosophy, and interpretive practice as it demonstrates an alternative exegesis of the Constitution. It clarifies a wide range of interpretive issues of federalism, enumerated rights (religious liberty and free speech), unenumerated rights (the constitutional right to privacy), and equal protection.

Author : Jennifer Nedelsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226569710

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Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism by Jennifer Nedelsky Pdf

Federalists vision of the Constitution; an interdisciplinary investigation.

Author : Bradley D. Hays
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135055615

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States in American Constitutionalism by Bradley D. Hays Pdf

States in American Constitutionalism: Interpretation, Authority, and Politics examines the often overlooked role that states have played in the development and maintenance of American constitutionalism by examining the purpose and effect of state resolutions on national constitutional meaning. From colonial practices through contemporary politics, subnational governments have made claims about what national constitutional provisions and principles ought to mean, fashioned political coalitions to back them, and asserted their authority to provoke constitutional settlement. Yet, this practice has been far from static. Political actors have altered the practice in response to their interpretive objectives and the political landscape of the day. States in American Constitutionalism explains both the development of the practice and the way each innovation to the practice affected subsequent iterations. Hays presents a series of case studies that explore the origins of the practice in colonial constitutionalism, its function in the early Republic, subsequent developments in antebellum and twentieth century politics, and contemporary practice in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. States in American Constitutionalism will be of great interest to students and academics interested in constitutional law and politics, political and constitutional development, and federalism.

Author : Stephen L. Newman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791485842

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Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States by Stephen L. Newman Pdf

Comparative study of American and Canadian constitutionalism, especially rights jurisprudence.

Author : G. McDowell,J. O'Neill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230601062

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America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism by G. McDowell,J. O'Neill Pdf

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America.

Author : Howard Gillman,Mark A. Graber,Keith E. Whittington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 0199751358

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American Constitutionalism: Introduction to rights and liberties by Howard Gillman,Mark A. Graber,Keith E. Whittington Pdf

"In American Constitutionalism, Third Edition, renowned authors Howard Gillman, Mark A. Graber, and Keith E. Whittington offer an innovative approach to the two-semester Constitutional Law sequence (Volume 1 covers 'Institutions' and Volume II covers 'Rights and Liberties') that presents the material in a historical organization within each volume, as opposed to the typical issues-based organization. Looking at Supreme Court decisions historically provides an opportunity for instructors to teach - and students to reflect on - the political factions and climate of the day. The third edition has been updated through the 2020 SCOTUS session, and features upated cases, analysis, illustrations, and figures."--Back cover

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : LCCN:2021019825

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American Constitutionalism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Howard Gillman,Mark A. Graber,Keith E. Whittington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 0190299487

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American Constitutionalism: Rights and liberties. Introduction to rights and liberties in American constitutionalism. The colonial era : before 1776. The founding era : 1776-1791. The early national era : 1791-1828. The Jacksonian era : 1829-1860. Civil War and Reconstruction : 1861-1876. The Republican era : 1877-1932. The New Deal by Howard Gillman,Mark A. Graber,Keith E. Whittington Pdf

Présentation de l'éditeur : "The key points are the authors (editing and headnotes), broader readings (for political and historical context), historical sequence (with flexibility to suit both new and traditional courses), and pedagogy to encourage learning and critical thinking. Political science majors and future practicing lawyers alike will appreciate this "historical institutional " context, seeing the law as a vital part of the political process. They will see how the Constitution and the courts are influenced by politics, how other factors and players shape the law beyond the Supreme Court, and how history is in turn a struggle for constitutional authority. And they are reinforced and challenged at every step by bulleted summaries, questions, and other pedagogy not found in any other text."