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Ideas with consequences : the Federalist Society and the conservative counterrevolution /

"There are few intellectual movements in American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization has now become the conservative legal establishment, and membership is...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hollis-Brusky, Amanda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Oxford studies in postwar American political development.
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Understanding Federalist Society Network Influence
  • Part I: The State Exists to Preserve Freedom
  • 2. The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: Lost and Found
  • 3. Judicial Activism, Inc.: The First Amendment, Campaign Finance, and Citizens United
  • Part II: The Separation of Governmental Powers is Central to Our Constitution
  • 4. Federalism and the Commerce Power: Returning to "First Principles"
  • 5. State Sovereignty and the Tenth Amendment: The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine
  • Part III: It is Emphatically the Province and Duty of the Judiciary Branch to Say What the Law Is, Not What It Should Be
  • 6. Saying What the Law Is: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution
  • Appendix A
  • An Agenda for Future Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward
  • Appendix B
  • List of Interviews
  • References
  • Index.