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The Constitution as Political Structure

The Constitution as Political Structure

Hardcover

General LawGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0195070607
ISBN13: 9780195070606
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 5 1995
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Over the last forty years modern constitutional scholarship has concentrated on an analysis of rights, while principles of constitutional law concerning the structure of government have been largely downplayed. The irony of this interpretive emphasis is that the body of the Constitution contains relatively little dealing directly with rights. Rather, it is primarily a blueprint for the establishment of a complex form of federal-democratic structure. This work emphasizes the central role served by the structural portions of the Constitution. Redish argues that these structural values were designed to provide the framework in which our rights-based system may flourish, and that judicial abandonment of these structural values threatens the very foundations of American political theory.

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