Conservatives and the Constitution - Imagining Constitutional Restoration in Heyday of American

Recovers a contested, evolving tradition of conservative constitutional argument that shaped the past and is bidding to make the future.

List of contents

1. The intellectual archipelago of the postwar American right; 2. The alternative tradition of conservative constitutional theory; 3. Stories about markets; 4. Stories about communism; 5. Evangelical and fundamentalist Christian stories; 6. Right-wing Roman Catholic stories; Conclusion: the development of constitutional conservatism.

About the author

Ken I. Kersch is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. A noted scholar of American constitutional law and history and American political development and thought, he has won numerous awards for his work, including the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Award, the J. David Greenstone Prize from the American Political Science Association's Politics and History Section, and the Hughes-Gossett Award from the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Product details

• Authors: Ken I. Kersch, Kersch Ken I.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780521193108
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19310-8
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Political parties and party platforms, Law & society, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general