The Constitution and the New Deal
In a new narrative of power and force, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as “liberal,” “conservative,” and “reactionary,” and by reexamining several key topics in constitutional law.
Print Book, English, 2000
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000
History
400 pages ; 24 cm.
9780674008311, 0674008316
1037777482
Preface Introduction I Complicating the Conventional Account 1 The Conventional Account 2 The Transformation of the Constitutional Jurisprudence of Foreign Relations: The Orthodox Regime under Stress 3 The Triumph of Executive Discretion in Foreign Relations 4 The Emergence of Agency Government and the Creation of Administrative Law 5 The Emergence of Free Speech II The Constitutional Revolution as Jurisprudential Crisis 6 The Restatement Project and the Crisis of Early Twentieth-Century Jurisprudence 7 The Constitutional Revolution as a Crisis in Adaptivity III The Creation of Triumphalist Narratives 8 The Myths of Substantive Due Process 9 The Canonization and Demonization of Judges 10 Cabining the New Deal in Time Notes Index