We the People, Volumen2Harvard University Press, 2000 M09 15 - 528 páginas 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 Dealers vindicated a new vision of activist government against an assault by the Supreme Court. |
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... Reconstruction to New Deal 255 Rethinking the New Deal 279 The Missing Amendments 312 Rediscovery or Creation? 345 Reclaiming the Constitution 383 Frequently Cited Works 423 Notes 425 Index 495 Acknowledgments I generally write books in ...
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