00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004094 20221102035919 0010-0520004094 221102################|##########|#eng## 978-0-521-01055-9 eng 342.73085 342.73085 KER c Kersch, Ken I Constructing Civil Liberties : Discontinuities in the Development American Constitutional Law / Ken I. Kersch New York : Cambriedge University Press, 2004 viii, 392 p. ; 23 cm The modern jurisprudence of civil liberties and civil rights is best understood not as the outgrowth of an applied philosophical project involving the application of principles to facts, but as developmental product of diverse, institutionalized currents of reformist political thought. This book demonstrates that rights of individuals in the criminal justice system, workplace, and school were the endpoint of a succession of progressive-spirited ideological and political campaigns of statebuilding and reform. In advancing this vision of constitutional development, this book integrates the development paths of civil liberties law into an account of the rise of the modern state and the reformist political and intellectual movements that shapped and sustained it. In doing so, this book provides a vivid, multilayered, revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals. 1. Civil Rights - United States - History 2. Judicial Review - United States 3. Law - Political Aspects 07234/MKRI-P/XII-2007 09285/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09285/MKRI-P/XI-2008 07234/MKRI-P/XII-2007 07234/MKRI-P/XII-2007 09285/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09285/MKRI-P/XI-2008 07234/MKRI-P/XII-2007