The Constitution of the United States of America - A Contextual Analysis

This is the second edition of Professor Tushnet''s short critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States'' Constitution. It is organised around wo themes: first, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. Second, the Constitution creates a structure of political opportunities that allows political actors, icluding political parties, to pursue the preferred policy goals even to the point of altering the very structure of politics. Deploying these themes to examine the structure f the national government, federalism, judicial review, and individual rights, the book provides basic information about, and deeper insights into, the way he US constitutional system has developed and what it means today.>

Product details

• Authors: Mark Tushnet, Professor Mark Tushnet
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2015
• EAN: 9781849466042
• ISBN: 978-1-84946-604-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Constitutional Systems of the World; Constitutional Systems of the World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, LAW / Constitutional, United States of America, USA, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general