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Conservatives and the Constitution - Ken I. Kersch

Conservatives and the Constitution

Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism

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Buch | Softcover
428 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-13980-9 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the post-war conservative movement in the US to shed light on how visions of constitutional restoration and redemption were mobilized during the heyday of American liberalism to unite a fractious and diverse political coalition.
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 postwar American conservative movement. Conservatives and the Constitution is the first history of the political and intellectual trajectory of this foundational tradition and mobilization. By looking at the deep stories told either by identity groups or about what conservatives took to be flashpoint topics in the postwar period, Ken I. Kersch seeks to capture the developmental and integrative nature of postwar constitutional conservatism, challenging conservatives and liberals alike to more clearly see and understand both themselves and their presumed political and constitutional opposition. Conservatives and the Constitution makes a unique contribution to our understanding of modern American conservatism, and to the constitutional thought that has, in critical ways, informed and defined it.

Ken I. Kersch is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. A noted scholar of American constitutional law and history and American political development and thought, he has won numerous awards for his work, including the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Award, the J. David Greenstone Prize from the American Political Science Association's Politics and History Section, and the Hughes-Gossett Award from the Supreme Court Historical Society.

1. The intellectual archipelago of the postwar American right; 2. The alternative tradition of conservative constitutional theory; 3. Stories about markets; 4. Stories about communism; 5. Evangelical and fundamentalist Christian stories; 6. Right-wing Roman Catholic stories; Conclusion: the development of constitutional conservatism.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 228 mm
Gewicht 610 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-521-13980-5 / 0521139805
ISBN-13 978-0-521-13980-9 / 9780521139809
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