Constitution in 2020
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Book Overview
The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds--Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark Tushnet, Yochai Benkler and Richard Ford, among others--the book tackles a wide range of issues, including the challenge of new technologies, presidential power, international human rights, religious liberty, freedom of speech, voting, reproductive rights, and economic rights. The Constitution in 2020 calls on liberals to articulate their constitutional vision in a way that can command the confidence of ordinary Americans.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195387961
ISBN13:9780195387964
Release Date:May 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Unique Synthesis
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Nowhere will you find so much progressive-minded legal brainpower accumulated in such a short, readable volume. Many of the top law professors in the country combine here to produce a vision--albeit one in pieces--of the Constitution not subsumed to the Reagan Justice Department's political mission, as ours has been in the past 30 years.
Scholarship with a purpose
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The Constitution in 2020 is a long overdue effort by progressive legal scholars to articulate their vision of the Constitution. Modeled after the Constitution in 2000, a document produced in the Reagan Justice Department that shaped the direction of conservative legal thought, the book is timely and engaging. It provides a wonderful introduction to progressive legal thought for law students and lay people alike. The chapters are very accessible, and clearer than your typical law review article -- this is definitely a book written for the general public, not for constitutional scholars. And the essays cover the whole gamut of legal issues, from first amendment rights to social and economic rights to citizenship issues. Moreover, the book pulls together essays from the leading progressive thinkers of our time. If any ideas are likely to shape the progressive legal agenda for years to come, it is those of the contributors to this volume. This collection of essays will be extremely valuable for people interested in learning more about progressive legal thought.
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