04094nam 2200781 a 450 991045550580332120210917031717.01-4008-0311-X97866127305111-4008-2212-21-282-73051-71-4008-1187-210.1515/9781400822126(CKB)111056486502496(EBL)574436(OCoLC)700687905(SSID)ssj0000101983(PQKBManifestationID)11124552(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101983(PQKBWorkID)10043347(PQKB)11197185(SSID)ssj0000411655(PQKBManifestationID)11268545(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411655(PQKBWorkID)10357032(PQKB)11782499(MiAaPQ)EBC574436(OCoLC)51533651(MdBmJHUP)muse36013(DE-B1597)446143(OCoLC)979754370(DE-B1597)9781400822126(Au-PeEL)EBL574436(CaPaEBR)ebr10031890(CaONFJC)MIL273051(EXLCZ)9911105648650249619960129d1996 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrAmerican constitutionalism[electronic resource] from theory to politics /Stephen M. GriffinCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19961 online resource (229 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-00240-1 0-691-03404-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --One. American Constitutionalism --Two. The Constitution and Political Institutions --Three. Judicial Review and American Democracy --Four. Problems of Constitutional Adjudication --Five. Theories of Constitutional Interpretation --Six. Constitutional Crisis and Reform --IndexDespite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by judicial practice in the United States over the past three centuries, particularly since the Warren Court, and locates both theory and practices that have inspired dispute among jurists and scholars in historical context. At the same time he advances an argument about the distinctive nature of our American constitutionalism, regarding it as an instance of the interpenetration of law and politics. American Constitutionalism is unique in considering the perspectives of both law and political science in relation to constitutional theory. Constitutional theories produced by legal scholars do not usually discuss state-centered theories of American politics, the importance of institutions, behaviorist research on judicial decision making, or questions of constitutional reform, but this book takes into account the political science literature on these and other topics. The work also devotes substantial attention to judicial review and its relationship to American democracy and theories of constitutional interpretation.Constitutional lawUnited StatesConstitutional lawPhilosophyUnited StatesPolitics and governmentElectronic books.Constitutional lawConstitutional lawPhilosophy.342.73/001347.30201Griffin Stephen M.1957-1032612MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455505803321American constitutionalism2460573UNINA