Constitutionalism and American culture : writing the new constitutional history / edited by Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Kermit L. Hall, and Robert J. Kaczorowski ; foreword by Stanley N. Katz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

VanBurkleo, Sandra F., 1944-

Hall, Kermit L., 1944-2006.

Kaczorowski, Robert J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Culture and law.

History.

United States.

Culture and law--History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 439 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2002]

Contents:

Constitutional contexts. Constitutional contexts: the theory of history and the process of constitutional change in revolutionary America / David Thomas Konig

The inverted constitution: enforcing constitutional rights in the nineteenth century / Robert J. Kaczorowski

The rise and fall of classical legal thought: preface to the modern constitution / William M. Wiecek

The modern constitutional republic in historical perspective. Free speech and the bifurcated review project: the 'preferred position' cases / G. Edward White

The roles of lawyers in a civil liberties crisis: Hawaii during World War II / Harry N. Scheiber and Jane L. Scheiber

Constitutional equality for women: losing the battle, but winning the war / Cynthia Harrison

The Warren Court and equality / Michal R. Belknap

The overlooked litigant in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) / John W. Johnson

Cultural history and the First Amendment: New York Times v. Sullivan and its times / Kermit L. Hall

New directions in American constitutional history. 'Words as hard as cannon-balls': women's rights agitation and liberty of speech in nineteenth-century America / Sandra F. VanBurkleo

Race, state, market, and civil society in constitutional history / Mark Tushnet

Constitutional history and the 'cultural turn': cross-examining the legal-reelist narratives of Henry Fonda / Norman L. Rosenberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0700611533

0700611541

OCLC:

47849391