American Constitutionalism From Theory to Politics

Name: American Constitutionalism From Theory to Politics
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ISBN: 9780691002408

ISBN-10: 0691002401

ISBN-13: 9780691002408

Edition: 1996

Authors: Stephen M. Griffin

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Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by judicial practice in the United States over the past three centuries, particularly since the Warren Court, and locates both theory and practices that have inspired dispute among jurists and scholars in historical context. At the same time he advances an argument about the distinctive nature of our…

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List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Stephen M. Griffin is Rutledge C. Clement, Jr., Professor in Constitutional Law at Tulane Law School.



Preface


Introduction



American Constitutionalism



The Constitution and Political Institutions



Judicial Review and American Democracy



Problems of Constitutional Adjudication



Theories of Constitutional Interpretation



Constitutional Crisis and Reform


Index