The Rule of Law in the United States

Name: The Rule of Law in the United States
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Paul Gowder

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What is the American rule of law? Is it a paradigm case of the strong constitutionalism concept of the rule of law or has it fallen short of its rule of law ambitions? This open access book traces the promise and paradox of the American rule of law in three interwoven ways. It focuses on explicating the ideals of the American rule of law by asking: how do we interpret its history and the goals of its constitutional framers to see the rule of law ambitions its foundational institutions express? It considers those constitutional institutions as inextricable from the problem of race in the United States and the tensions between the rule of law as a protector of property rights and the rule of law as a restrictor on arbitrary power and a guarantor of legal equality. In that context, it explores the distinctive role of Black liberation movements in developing the American rule of law. Finally, it considers the extent to which the American rule of law is compromised at its frontiers, and the extent that those compromises undermine legal protections Americans enjoy in the interior. It asks how America reflects the legal contradictions of capitalism and empire outside its borders, and the impact of those contradictions on its external goals. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and the Northwestern Open Access Fund, provided by Northwestern University Libraries.

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Number of Pages:: 214
Release Date:: 2021-12-16
Publication Date:: 2021-12-16
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1509939997
ISBN13:: 9781509939992
Weight:: 490 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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