The New Constitutional Order

by Mark Tushnet and Mark V. Tushnet

Book Overview

In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many Democrats thought he was betraying the principles of the New Deal and the Great Society. Mark Tushnet argues that Clinton was stating an observed fact: the emergence of a new constitutional order in which the aspiration to achieve justice directly through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691120552
• ISBN13: 9780691120553
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"