Bradley D Hays

States in American Constitutionalism

Interpretation, Authority, and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

States in American Constitutionalism: Interpretation, Authority, and Politics examines the often overlooked role that states have played in the development and maintenance of American constitutionalism by examining the purpose and effect of state resolutions on national constitutional meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781032092423
• ISBN-10: 1032092424
• Artikelnr.: 62152619

Autorenporträt

Bradley D. Hays is an associate professor of political science at Union College. He received his Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland, has held faculty positions at the Catholic University of America and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and been a junior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. He writes on constitutional politics and political development. He is also "scholar in residence" at WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The (non-legal) Role of States in Constitutional
Maintenance 2. Alerting the People: The Origins and Early Practice of State
Maintenance 3. Interposing the Protective Shield and Exerting State
Authority: The Failures of State Maintenance 4. The Authority to Reject
Interpretation: State Maintenance in the 20th Century 5. Reinvigoration:
The Return of Madisonian Maintenance, Nullification, and the Affirmation of
Judicial Authority 6. Conclusion: On Development and Constitutionalism