Constitutional Rights & Powers of the People (Paper) (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Moore, Wayne D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691002444 ISBN 13: 9780691002446

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1998

Synopsis

American constitutionalism rests on premise of popular sovereignty, but questions remain about how the "people" and their rights and powers fit into the constitutional design. This text examines a number of questions: who is included among the people; how are the people politically configured; how may the people act; and how do the people relate to government? The book includes historical material from the antebellum period, for example, the notorious Dred Scott case and the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass. It offers an insight into central problems of constitutional history, theory and law.

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Review

Winner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Laws and Courts section of the American Political Science Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
"The entire package within which these familiar positions take shape is often refreshingly original.... There is much in Moore's work that merits attention from constitutional theorists."--Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, The Law and Politics Book Review

"[Moore's] reflections on constitutional law are excellent. . . . This book will be useful to professors of Constitutional Law and possibly to students in courses in advanced studies of the Constitution. . . . Professor Moore's treatment of the Dred Scott decision is especially interesting since it weaves in materials that will not be familiar to many readers."--Robert F. Drinan, Law Books in Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691002444
• ISBN 13: 9780691002446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308