Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... Supreme Court ( 1998 ) , whose focus is not so much on the Constitution itself but on the Court as a body and its justices as individuals . 6 There have been no challenges in re- sponse to my book's basic contention : namely , that this ...
... Supreme Court ( 1998 ) , whose focus is not so much on the Constitution itself but on the Court as a body and its justices as individuals . 6 There have been no challenges in re- sponse to my book's basic contention : namely , that this ...
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... Supreme Court , and civil liberties ( in the archive of the Roper Center at the University of Con- necticut ) . The sources I have utilized most extensively suggest the sort of book this is . More attention is given to an essay by ...
... Supreme Court , and civil liberties ( in the archive of the Roper Center at the University of Con- necticut ) . The sources I have utilized most extensively suggest the sort of book this is . More attention is given to an essay by ...
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The Constitution in American Culture Michael G. Kammen. Among Supreme Court justices one thinks of Louis D. Brandeis , a Progressive humanitarian who never shed his Wilsonian commitment to traditional federalism and therefore had grave ...
The Constitution in American Culture Michael G. Kammen. Among Supreme Court justices one thinks of Louis D. Brandeis , a Progressive humanitarian who never shed his Wilsonian commitment to traditional federalism and therefore had grave ...
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... Supreme Court is the Constitution . " The authors of a widely used textbook , The Supreme Court in a Free Society ( 1959 ) , seem to have been so persuaded that they took Frankfurter's assertion as the title of their first chapter ...
... Supreme Court is the Constitution . " The authors of a widely used textbook , The Supreme Court in a Free Society ( 1959 ) , seem to have been so persuaded that they took Frankfurter's assertion as the title of their first chapter ...
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... Court and the Constitution is hardly limited to grass roots America . It seems to have been shared by a great many scholars because the constitutional history of the United States has primarily been written as the history of Supreme Court ...
... Court and the Constitution is hardly limited to grass roots America . It seems to have been shared by a great many scholars because the constitutional history of the United States has primarily been written as the history of Supreme Court ...
Contents
2 | 43 |
PART | 125 |
The American and the British Constitution | 156 |
The Crisis in Constitutionalism | 185 |
God Knows How Dearly We Need | 219 |
Decisions Are Politics When Constitutional | 255 |
My God Making a Racket out | 282 |
PART FOUR | 313 |
The Public Got Strange and Distorted | 357 |
Its What Holds Us All Together | 381 |
Appendix A A Note on the Sources | 403 |
Abbreviations | 411 |
95 | 417 |
156 | 429 |
Index | 509 |
Our Bill of Rights Is Under | 336 |
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