We the People, Volume 2: Transformations

Name: We the People, Volume 2: Transformations
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ISBN: 9780674003972

ISBN-10: 0674003977

ISBN-13: 9780674003972

Edition: 1998

Authors: Bruce Ackerman

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Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures to this day. After the bloody sacrifices of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party revolutionized the traditional system of constitutional amendment as they put principles of liberty and equality into higher law. Another wrenching transformation occurred during the Great Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt and his New…

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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University.



Acknowledgments



In The Beginning



Higher Lawmaking



Reframing the Founding



The Founding Precedent



Reconstruction



Formalist Dilemmas



Presidential Leadership



The Convention/Congress



Interpreting the Mandate



The Great Transformation



Modernity



From Reconstruction to New Deal



Rethinking the New Deal



The Missing Amendments



Rediscovery or Creation?



Reclaiming the Constitution Frequently


Cited Works


Notes


Index