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The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution.
This book traces the evolution of the constitutional order, explaining Donald Trump's election as a symptom of a degraded democratic-capitalist system. Beginning with the framers' vision of a balanced system--balanced between the public and private spheres, between government power and ind...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Democracy, Inc., and the Betrayal of the Constitution; Part I The Foundation for a Balanced Structure; Chapter 2 The Constitutional Framing: Republican Democracy, Private Property, and Free Expression; The Revolutionary Background; Experience Defeats Idealism; The Nature of the Citizen-Self; Republican Democratic Government and the Public Sphere; Property and the Private Sphere; Balancing the Public and Private; Free Speech and a Free Press; Part II The Transformation of the Constitutional System.
- Chapter 3 Republican Democracy Evolves: Corporations and Laissez FaireChapter 4 Pluralist Democracy Saves the United States and Invigorates Free Expression; American Democracy Transforms: Reconciling the Public and Private; Pluralist Democratic Theory: Free Expression Becomes a Constitutional Lodestar; Chapter 5 Pluralist Democracy Evolves: Free Expression, Judicial Conservatism, and the Cold War; The Early-Cold War, Free Expression, and Moral Clarity; The Flip Side of the Cold War: Liberty and Equality in an Emerging Consumers' Democracy; Civil Rights and Democracy; Capitalism and Democracy.
- Chapter 6 Democracy, Inc., and the End of the Cold WarThe Rise of Democracy, Inc.: An Attack on Government; The Early Roberts Court in Democracy, Inc; Statutory and Other Non-constitutional Cases; Free-Expression and Other Constitutional Cases; Part III The Early and New Roberts Courts; Chapter 7 Constitution Betrayed: The Endangerment of the American Democratic-Capitalist System; The Framing and Originalism; Social and Political Theory; The Practical Effects of Laissez Faire in History; Chapter 8 Will We Save the AmericanConstitutional System?; Index.