The Reign of Law: Marbury vs. Madison and the Origins of the American Political Imagination - Hardcover

Kahn, Paul W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300066791 ISBN 13: 9780300066791

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1997

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Book by Kahn Professor Paul W

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Reseña del editor:

This is the first major work to apply to the rule of law the insights of modern cultural theory, ranging from Clifford Geertz to Michel Foucault. Starting from Thomas Paine's observation that "in America, law is king, " Paul Kahn asks: What are the elements of our belief in the rule of law? And what are the rhetorical techniques by which the courts maintain this belief? Kahn centers his exploration on the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison - still the greatest of our constitutional cases. Kahn shows that Marbury is the judicial response to President Thomas Jefferson's belief that his election represented a Second American Revolution. Kahn uses the confrontation between president and Court to analyze the contrasting ways in which the revolutionary and the legal imaginations understand and give shape to political events. This contest continues today in the conflicting demands we make for a politics that preserves the past yet celebrates popular innovation.

Biografía del autor:

Paul W. Kahn, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0300066791
• ISBN 13: 9780300066791
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314