The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution

Author: Mark Tushnet; Sanford Levinson; Mark A. Graber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190245757

Published In: October 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780190654535

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The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the perspectives of history, political science, law, rights, and constitutional themes, while focusing on its development, structures, rights, and role in the U.S. political system and culture.

This Handbook enables readers within and beyond the U.S. to develop a critical comprehension of the literature on the Constitution, along with accessible and up-to-date analysis. The historical essays included in this Handbook cover the Constitution from 1620 right through the Reagan Revolution to the present.

Essays on political science detail how contemporary citizens in the United States rely extensively on political parties, interest groups, and bureaucrats to operate a constitution designed to prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics and an entrenched bureaucracy.

The essays on law explore how contemporary citizens appear to expect and accept the exertions of power by a Supreme Court, whose members are increasingly disconnected from the world of practical politics. Essays on rights discuss how contemporary citizens living in a diverse multi-racial society seek guidance on the meaning of liberty and equality, from a Constitution designed for a society in which all politically relevant persons shared the same race, gender, religion and ethnicity.

Lastly, the essays on themes explain how in a "globalized" world, people living in the United States can continue to be governed by a constitution originally meant for a society geographically separated from the rest of the "civilized world."

Whether a return to the pristine constitutional institutions of the founding or a translation of these constitutional norms in the present is possible remains the central challenge of U.S. constitutionalism today.

List of Contributors

1. Introduction

History

2. The Constitution from 1620 to the Early Republic/David Brian Robertson

3. Constitutional Developments from Jackson through Reconstruction/Michael Les Benedict

4. The Gilded Age through the Progressive Era/Ken I. Kersch

5. From the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution/L.A. Powe, Jr.

6. The Reagan Revolution to the Present/Thomas M. Keck

Political Science

7. Constitutions as Basic Structure/Neil Komesar

8. The Constitutional Politics of Congress/Neal Devins

9. The Constitutional Politics of the Executive Branch/Mariah Zeisberg

10. The Constitutional Politics of the Judiciary/Justin Crowe

11. The Uneasy Place of Parties in the Constitutional Order/Russell Muirhead, and Nancy L. Rosenblum

12. Social Movements and the Constitution/Mark Tushnet

13. The Administrative State: Law, Democracy, and Knowledge/Adrian Vermeule

14. The Resilience of the American Federal System/Jenna Bednar

15. Empire/Bartholomew H. Sparrow

16. The Evolution of America's Fiscal Constitution/Bill White

Law

17. The Executive Power/Stephen M. Griffin

18. Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment/Ellen D. Katz

19. The Power of Judicial Review/Keith E. Whittington

20. Delegation, Accommodation, and the Permeability of Constitutional and Ordinary Law/Gillian E. Metzger

21. Federalism/Michael S. Greve

Rights

22. Equality/ Julie Novkov

23. Liberty/James E. Fleming, and Linda C. McClain

24. Property in the United States Constitution/ Jedediah Purdy

25. Gender, Sex, and the U.S. Constitution/Leslie F. Goldstein

26. Racial Rights/ Girardeau A. Spann

27. Autonomy (of Individuals and Private Associations)/Dale Carpenter

28. Citizenship/Gerald L. Neuman

29. Religion/Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

30. Free Speech and Free Press/ Stephen M. Feldman

31. Criminal Procedure/Carol S. Steiker

32. Habeas Corpus/Paul D. Halliday

33. Native Americans/Matthew L. M. Fletcher

34. Positive Rights/Emily Zackin

35. The Right to Bear Arms/Saul Cornell

Themes

36. Constitutionalism/Mark E. Brandon

37. Emergency Powers/Oren Gross

38. Constitutional Authority/Wayne D. Moore

39. Is Constitutional Law Really Law?/David A. Strauss

40. Constitutionalism Outside the Courts/Ernest A. Young

41. State Constitutionalism/John Dinan

42. Interpretation/Jamal Greene

43. Constitutional Change/Gerard N. Magliocca

44. The U.S. Constitution and International Law/Vicki C. Jackson

45. The Constitution in Comparative Perspective/Heinz Klug

46. Education and the Constitution/Elizabeth Beaumont

47. The Economics of Constitutional Law/Maxwell L. Stearns

48. The Constitution and United States Culture/Paul W. Kahn

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