How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution

How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
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Publisher : Cato Institute
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781933995298
ISBN-13 : 1933995297
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Book Synopsis How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution by : Richard A. Epstein

Download or read book How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution written by Richard A. Epstein and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution explores the fundamental shift in political and economic thought of the Progressive Era and how the Supreme Court was used to transform the Constitution into one that reflected the ideas of their own time, while undermining America’s founding principles. Epstein examines key decisions to demonstrate how Progressives attacked much of the legal precedent and eventually weakened the Court’s thinking concerning limited federal powers and the protection of individual rights. Progressives on the Court undermined basic economic principles of freedom and competition, paving the way for the modern redistributive and regulatory state. This book shows that our modern “constitutional law,” fashioned largely by the New Deal Court in the late 1930s, has its roots in Progressivism, not in our country's founding principles, and how so many of those ideas, however discredited by more recent economic thought, still shape the Court's decisions.


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