Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence

by Bradley C.S. Watson

Book Overview

In Living Constitution, Dying Faith, political scientist and legal historian Bradley Watson examines how the contemporary embrace of the "living" Constitution has arisen from the radical transformation of American political thought. This transformation, brought about in the late nineteenth century by the philosophies of social Darwinism and pragmatism, explains how and why contemporary jurisprudence is so alien to the constitutionalism of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933859709
• ISBN13: 9781933859705
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.6"