Cycles of Constitutional Time

by J M Balkin, Jack M. Balkin, Jack M Balkin

What will happen to American democracy? The nation's past holds vital clues for understanding where we are now and where we are headed. In The Cycles of Constitutional Time, the eminent constitutional theorist Jack Balkin explains how America's constitutional system changes through the interplay among three cycles: the rise and fall of dominant political parties, the waxing and waning of political polarization, and alternating episodes of constitutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197530990
• ISBN13: 9780197530993
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"