The Oxford handbook of the U.S. Constitution

This work provides a comprehensive guide to the United States Constitution. It examines constitutional developments based on a periodization scheme that partly reflects important changes in constitutional governance, from the Jacksonian Era to the beginning of the 1980s. The book's general hist...

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Other Authors: Tushnet, Mark V. (Editor), Levinson, Sanford (Editor), Graber, Mark A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2015, 2015
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Collection: Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This work provides a comprehensive guide to the United States Constitution. It examines constitutional developments based on a periodization scheme that partly reflects important changes in constitutional governance, from the Jacksonian Era to the beginning of the 1980s. The book's general historical institutionalist orientation blurs precise distinctions between political science and law, with particular reference to the role of political parties, interest groups, and bureaucrats in operating a constitution designed to prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics, and an entrenched bureaucracy
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780190245788