A Citizen's Guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court

Constitutional Conflict in American Politics

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Morgan Marietta

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Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs

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The U.S. Constitution is a blueprint for a free society as well as a source of enduring conflict over how that society must be governed. The competing ways of reading our founding document shape the decisions of the Supreme Court, which acts as the final voice on constitutional questions. This breezy, concise guide explains the central conflicts that frame our constitutional controversies, written in clear non-academic language to serve as a resource for engaged citizens, both inside and outside of an academic setting. After covering the main points of conflict in constitutional law, Marietta gives readers an overview of the perspectives from the leading schools of constititional interpretation--textualism, common law constitutionalism, originalism, and living constitutionalism. He then walks through the points of conflict and competing schools of thought in the context of several landmark cases and ends with advice to readers on how to interpret constitutional issues ourselves.

Author Biography:

Morgan Marietta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of A Citizen's Guide to American Ideology and The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric.

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July 17th, 2013

Author

Morgan Marietta

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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5 Tables, black and white

Pages

204

Series

Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs

Dimensions

138x216x18

ISBN-13

9780415843812

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21219664

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