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.
Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and ...
See Louis Henkin, Foreign Affairs and the United States Constitution, 185–194 (2d ed., 1996); Harold H. Koh, The National ... Policy,” 54 Yale Law Journal 182, 534 (1945), to Bruce Ackerman and David Golove, “Is NAFTA Constitutional?
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 ...
Finally, the volume appraises American conservatives’ efforts, so far unavailing despite many famous victories, to revive the founders’ Constitution and moral common sense.
This book explains how the debate over originalism emerged from the interaction of constitutional theory, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and American political development.
A Note on Sources Calvin Coolidge, “The Reign of Law,” in Foundations of the Republic, 223–233. Warren Harding, ”Social Justice,” in Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1921), 197–224.
Mark Tushnet traces the ways constitutional thought has evolved, from the liberalism of the New Deal and the Great Society to the Reagan conservatism that has been dominant since the 1980s.
It tells the story of how conservatism in the United States began as networks of intellectuals, often acting in concert with political figures, developed a critique of Progressivism and of New Deal liberalism, and institutionalized this ...
Peter Berkowitz identifies the political principles social conservatives and libertarians share, or should share, and sketches the common ground on which they can and should join forces.
" --Cass R. Sunstein, The New Republic "Everyone who cares about how our government works should read this thoughtful book." --Washington Lawyer