Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism Since the New Deal

"In this work of intellectual history, the author identifies four transformations in federal goverrnment that followed the New Deal: the rise of the administrative state, the erosion of federalism, the ascendance of the modern presidency, and the development of modern judicial review. He then considers how schools of conservative thought (traditionalists, neoconservatives, libertarians, Straussians) responded to each transformation"--

About the author

Johnathan O'Neill (STATESBORO, GA) is a professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History.

Product details

• Authors: Johnathan O'Neill, Johnathan (Georgia Southern University) O'Neill, Johnathan (Georgia Southern University) O''neill
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781421444628
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4462-8
• No. of pages: 398
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Politics and government, History of the Americas, Constitution: government & the state, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Constitution