| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) : 26 illustrations, text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: Why the Constitution Needs Defending Today -- 1. Constitutional Critiques: The Re-Emergence of Jeffersonian Constitutional Angst -- 2. The Preamble, Then and Now: A More Perfect Union -- 3. Governing Institutions -- 4. Amendments and Interpretation -- Conclusion: Cults, Crises, Conventions, and Crossroads -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Constitutional reform is a topic of perennial academic debate, perhaps now more than ever amid sharp polarization in the electorate and government. At once a cogent, new contribution to the scholarly literature and appropriate for American politics and government students, this book mounts a provocative, nonideological defense of the US Constitution, directly engaging proposals for reform and providing a rare systematic argument for continuity: Our politics may be broken but our system is not. Writing from an international perspective with an array of fascinating data, the authordraws on theory, law, and history to defend the republican order under political stress and intellectual challenge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- United States.
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Constitutional history.
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Amendments.
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Constitution.
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Constitutional Convention.
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Constitutional Reform.
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Government Institutions.
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Political Institutions.
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Constitutional history
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351117708 |
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135111770X |
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9781351117685 |
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1351117688 |
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9781351117692 |
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1351117696 |
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