Judicial Review and American Conservatism - Christianity, Public Education, Federal Courts in Reagan Era

Informationen zum Autor Robert Daniel Rubin is an independent scholar. Klappentext This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity. Zusammenfassung Focusing on a conflict in Alabama during the 1980s! Robert Daniel Rubin considers how conservative evangelicals forged a political identity. To protect Christianity's role in public education! they both resisted and solicited the federal courts. This book will be of interest to historians! political scientists! and constitutional lawyers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Conservatism and the Constitution; 1. Massive resistance; 2. The moral majority of Alabamians; 3. Justice made political; 4. Accommodation; 5. Showdown; 6. The trouble with secularism; 7. Religion by any other name; Conclusion. The Constitution and the people.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Rubin, Robert Daniel Rubin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107060555
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06055-5
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Constitution: government & the state, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Constitution: government and the state, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Judicial Review