Constitutional bricolage / Gerald Garvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garvey, Gerald, 1935-2000, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uniquely blending anthropological and exchange theory, Professor Garvey offers a new interpretation of American constitutional development. His thesis: judicial reliance on a limited stock of received forms has inhibited the development of new concepts that could adequately reflect fundamental changes in society. Professor Garvey reviews the history of the Supreme Court in light of the "bricolage" theory. The Court, by interpreting the Constitution to effect laissez-faire and Social Darwinism, helped bring about a society ostensibly patterned on the buyer-seller model, marked by free exchange and "liberty of contract." New departures by the Court in the areas of free speech and criminal justice, according to the author, evidence a recognition of present inequities and a determination to change them; but to the extent the Court remains loyal to a buyer-seller model, it practices an unrealistic jurisprudence.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I. The Syntactic Approach and the Primacy of Form

II. The Law of Rules

III. The Framers' Political Syntax

IV. The Legal Humour in America

V. Taney and Constitutional Bricolage

VI. Helping the Fittest Survive

VII. The Liberation of the State

VIII. Toward a New Political Syntax: Beyond Bricolage

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64719-4

0-691-62044-X

1-4008-6910-2

OCLC:

903321873