00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003487 20221103102613 0010-0520003487 221103################|##########|#eng## 978-0-521-81178-3 eng 342.73085 342.73085 KER c Kersch, Ken I Constructing Civil Liberties : Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law / Ken I. Kersch Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004 viii, 392 p. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.371 - 392 This is a book about the paths of constitutional development culminating in the US Supreme Court's landmark civil liberties and civil rights jurisprudence of the 1960s and 1970s. It demonstrates that rights of individuals in the criminals justice system, workplaces, and school were the endpoint of a succeesion of progresive-spirited ideological and political campaigns of statebuildings and reform. In advancing this vision of constitutional development, it integrates the developmental paths of civil liberties law into an account of the rise of the modern state and the reformist political and intellectual movements that shappes nad sustained it. It provides a vivid, multilayered, revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals. It is, in the spirit of the works cited above - which, in the nature of things, is a revisionist spirit - aspires, in a context long set by the pull of New Deal constitutional Whiggism, to unsettle our wonted assumptions. Civil Rights - United States - History 11587/MKRI-P/XII-2008