Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism

by Ken I. Kersch

Book Overview

Since the 1980s, a ritualized opposition in legal thought between a conservative 'originalism' and a liberal 'living constitutionalism' has obscured the aggressively contested tradition committed to, and mobilization of arguments for, constitutional restoration and redemption within the broader postwar American conservative movement. Conservatives and the Constitution is the first history of the political and intellectual trajectory of this foundational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521139805
• ISBN13: 9780521139809
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 9.1"