Constructing Civil Liberties

Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

AvKen I. Kersch

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The modern jurisprudence of civil liberties and civil rights is best understood, not as the application of principles to facts, but as a product of currents of progressive reformist political thought. This book demonstrates that rights of individuals in the criminal justice system, workplace, and school now identified with the essence of civil rights and liberties, were the end point of a layered succession of progressive-spirited ideological and political campaigns of statebuilding and reform. In questioning this vision of constitutional development, this book integrates the developmental paths of civil liberties law into an account of the rise of the modern state and the reformist political and intellectual movements that shaped and sustained it. In doing so, Constructing Civil Liberties provides a vivid, multi-layered, revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-08-02
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt760 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor404
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521811781

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'This book is an original, nuanced, and exquisitely-researched critique of the Whiggish 'ideology of progress' narrative that dominates post-New Deal scholarship on American politics, constitutional law and development, civil liberties and civil rights, and the Supreme Court. Kersch's path-breaking alternative explanation of constitutional development will make this book an award-winner. It is a must read for political scientists, historians, legalists, the informed public, as well as for scholars of constitutional development – within and without the American context. I recommend it for use in graduate and undergraduate courses on American politics and political development, civil liberties and civil rights, constitutional law and politics, and comparative constitutional change.' Ronald Kahn, Oberlin College