We the People: Transformations - Couverture rigide

Ackerman, Bruce A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674948475 ISBN 13 : 9780674948471

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text argues that constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first. The Founding Fathers not being the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures at the close of the millennium. Citing examples like the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, the Great Depression and the New Dealers the author shows how the constitution was changed by these events. He demonstrates how the American people have confronted the Constitution in its moments of crisis with dramatic acts of upheaval, always in the name of popular sovereignty. He also reveals how a "dualist democracy" provides for these populist upheavels that the Constitution, often without formalities. The book also sets contemporary events, such as the Reagan revolution and "Roe versus Wade", in deeper constitutional perspective and considers fundamental reforms that might resolve them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674948475
• ISBN 13: 9780674948471
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 525
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• Personne responsable: non disponible