The People Themselves

Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Constitutional, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Democracy, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Larry D. Kramer ISBN: 9780199883448
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: June 10, 2004
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Larry D. Kramer
ISBN: 9780199883448
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: June 10, 2004
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.

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In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.

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