The Constitution of the United States of America: A Contextual Analysis

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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This is the second edition of Professor Tushnets short critical introduction to the history and current meaning of the United States Constitution. It is organised around wo themes: first, the US Constitution is old, short, and difficult to amend. Second, the Constitution creates a structure of political opportunities that allows political actors, icluding political parties, to pursue the preferred policy goals even to the point of altering the very structure of politics. Deploying these themes to examine the structure f the national government, federalism, judicial review, and individual rights, the book provides basic information about, and deeper insights into, the way he US constitutional system has developed and what it means today.

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...worthy of the highest recommendation for public and college library judicial studies shelves. * Midwest Book Review: Library Bookwatch *

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Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003, and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.