na INLIS000000000000393 20221103102746 0010-0520000393 221103 | | eng 978-521-81178-1 eng 342.73085 342.73085 KER c Kersch, Ken I Constructing Civil Liberties : Discountinuities in The Development Of American Constitutional Law / Ken I. Kersch Cambridge : Cambriedge University Press, 2004 v, 392 p. ; 22,5 cm. Indeks : Indeks This is a relentlessly interesting book, one that cannot help but change the way the reader understands twentieth-century American constitutional development. As Ken I. Kersch persuasively argues, for much of the late twentieth century American constitutional history was dominated by a whiggish narrative in which progressive forces consistently supportive of civil rights and civil liberties triumphed over the dark forces of reaction. This whiggish narrative, however, is full of holes. 1. Civil Right -US- History 2. Judicial Review -US- 3. Law and politics 06799/MKRI-P/XII-2007 06799/MKRI-P/XII-2007