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A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective

John E. Semonche, Herman Belz

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Written Constitutionalism as the American Project Chapter 2 Constitutionalism and the American Founding Chapter 3 Constitutional Realism in the Gilded Age Chapter 4 The Critique of Constitutionalism in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 Andrew C. McLaughlin and the Defense of Constitutionalism Chapter 6 Changing Conceptions of Constitutionalism in the Era of World War II and the Cold War Chapter 7 The New Left Attack on Constitutionalism Chapter 8 Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism Chapter 9 Constitutional and Legal History in the 1980s: Reflections on American Constitutionalism Chapter 10 History, Theory and the Constitution Chapter 11 The Originalist Challenge to the Living Constitution Chapter 12 Index

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Written Constitutionalism as the American Project Chapter 2 Constitutionalism and the American Founding Chapter 3 Constitutional Realism in the Gilded Age Chapter 4 The Critique of Constitutionalism in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 Andrew C. McLaughlin and the Defense of Constitutionalism Chapter 6 Changing Conceptions of Constitutionalism in the Era of World War II and the Cold War Chapter 7 The New Left Attack on Constitutionalism Chapter 8 Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism Chapter 9 Constitutional and Legal History in the 1980s: Reflections on American Constitutionalism Chapter 10 History, Theory and the Constitution Chapter 11 The Originalist Challenge to the Living Constitution Chapter 12 Index

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Written Constitutionalism as the American Project Chapter 2 Constitutionalism and the American Founding Chapter 3 Constitutional Realism in the Gilded Age Chapter 4 The Critique of Constitutionalism in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 Andrew C. McLaughlin and the Defense of Constitutionalism Chapter 6 Changing Conceptions of Constitutionalism in the Era of World War II and the Cold War Chapter 7 The New Left Attack on Constitutionalism Chapter 8 Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism Chapter 9 Constitutional and Legal History in the 1980s: Reflections on American Constitutionalism Chapter 10 History, Theory and the Constitution Chapter 11 The Originalist Challenge to the Living Constitution Chapter 12 Index

Key concepts: Constitutionalism, Constitution, Law, Political science, Originalism, Constitutional theory, Constitutional law, Bureaucracy

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