Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American CultureTransaction Publishers - 530 pages |
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... issues are joined : is the Constitution an or- ganic instrument or one that requires " strict interpretation " faith- ful to the times and intentions of the Founders ? Because the Four- teenth Amendment has become a crucial touchstone ...
... issues are joined : is the Constitution an or- ganic instrument or one that requires " strict interpretation " faith- ful to the times and intentions of the Founders ? Because the Four- teenth Amendment has become a crucial touchstone ...
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... issues as " original intent , " states rights , judicial activism , stare decisis ( respecting and adhering to precedent ) , and our compli- cated amending process . Which gives rise to the biggest irony of all — and one that has ...
... issues as " original intent , " states rights , judicial activism , stare decisis ( respecting and adhering to precedent ) , and our compli- cated amending process . Which gives rise to the biggest irony of all — and one that has ...
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... issues concerning political economy . Or Robert H. Jackson , whose constitutional position on the relative priority ... issue of the preceding twenty years could re- main hidden from view for so long was not at all unusual.1 Some of the ...
... issues concerning political economy . Or Robert H. Jackson , whose constitutional position on the relative priority ... issue of the preceding twenty years could re- main hidden from view for so long was not at all unusual.1 Some of the ...
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... issues , that tendency compounds yet another major source of misunderstanding . Felix Frankfurter declared in 1930 , when he was still a professor of law , that " in good truth , the Supreme Court is the Constitution . " The authors of ...
... issues , that tendency compounds yet another major source of misunderstanding . Felix Frankfurter declared in 1930 , when he was still a professor of law , that " in good truth , the Supreme Court is the Constitution . " The authors of ...
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... issues arising from its abolition stimulated more than five hundred proposed amendments . Following the Supreme Court's restrictive deci- sions pertaining to school prayer , 1962-64 , more than 170 amendment bills appeared . Considering ...
... issues arising from its abolition stimulated more than five hundred proposed amendments . Following the Supreme Court's restrictive deci- sions pertaining to school prayer , 1962-64 , more than 170 amendment bills appeared . Considering ...
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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A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Russell Fraser Limited preview - 2017 |
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Michael G. Kammen Limited preview - 2006 |
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