American Constitutionalism (eBook)

From Theory to Politics

Stephen M. Griffin (Autor)

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1998
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2212-6 (ISBN)

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Stephen M. Griffin is Professor of Law at Tulane University.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.1998
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • Adjudication • Advisory Opinion • Advocacy group • Ambiguity (law) • Amendment • americans • appellate court • attempt • Brown v. Board of Education • Cambridge University Press • Cass Sunstein • civil liberties • Common Law • Consideration • Constitution • constitutional amendment • constitutional crisis • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Constitutional theory • court • Criticism • Deliberation • Democracy • Direct Democracy • domestic policy • Due Process Clause • Equal Protection Clause • Executive (government) • Federal government of the United States • federal judge • foreign policy • Forms of Government • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fundamental Rights • Governance • Government • government agency • Harvard Law Review • Ideology • Institution • jacksonian democracy • Judicial Activism • Judicial Independence • Judicial interpretation • Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jurisprudence • Lawmaking • Law of the United States • lawyer • Legislation • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • lochner era • Member of Congress • national security • nation state • Ordinary law • original intent • Originalism • Oxford University Press • Planned Parenthood v. Casey • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political System • Politics • politics of the united states • popular sovereignty • Precedent • Provision (contracting) • ratification • Regulatory Agency • Representative Democracy • Republicanism • Roe v. Wade • Rule of Law • Sanford Levinson • Separation of Powers • Sovereignty • State constitution (United States) • State Government • State legislature (United States) • State (polity) • states' rights • Statute • Substantive Due Process • Tax • Term limit • United States Bill of Rights • United States constitution • United States federal judge • Voting • War Powers Resolution • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2212-2 / 1400822122
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2212-6 / 9781400822126