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[Amanda Hollis-Brusky] ✓ Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) Ô Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) Many of these issues-including the extent of federal government power, the scope of the right to bear arms, and the parameters of corporate political speech-had long been considered settled. But its power goes even deeper.In Ideas with Consequences, Amanda Hollis-Brusky provides the first comprehensive account of how the Federalist Society exerts its influence. But the Federalist Society was able to upend the existing conventional wisdom, promoting constitutional theories that had previ
| Title | : | Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199385521 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
Many of these issues-including the extent of federal government power, the scope of the right to bear arms, and the parameters of corporate political speech-had long been considered settled. But its power goes even deeper.In Ideas with Consequences, Amanda Hollis-Brusky provides the first comprehensive account of how the Federalist Society exerts its influence. But the Federalist Society was able to upend the existing conventional wisdom, promoting constitutional theories that had previously been dismissed as ludicrously radical. As Hollis-Brusky shows, the Federalist Society provided several of the crucial ingredients needed to accomplish this constitutional revolution. Created in 1982 to counterbalance wha
Hollis-Brusky makes skillful use of a large body of evidence within her theoretical framework to illuminate the role of the Federalist Society in shaping legal doctrine in the Supreme Court. In the process, she provides a richer understanding of how political and intellectual networks help to bring about constitutional change." --Lawrence Baum, The Ohio State University "The Federalist Society takes no positions, files no lawsuits, lobbies no legislators, and gives no political contributions. It is a debating society-though perhaps the most important one in American constitutional history since Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison had dinner by themselves. In Ideaswith Consequences, Amanda Hollis-Brusky s
Ronald H. Clark said The Federalist Society at Work. There are several recent books on the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. A good general introduction is Steven Teles, "The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law," which I reviewed earlier on Amazon. Teles outlines generally the genesis of the organization, how it is organized, and the methods whereby it undertakes to educate its conservative membership on legal and judicial issues. Founded in the 1980's, during the Reagan administration, the organization has become extremely influential in articulating conservative views of co. "Five Stars" according to natural health counselor. for my husband and he did like it.. David Wineberg said Takeover Without Representation. Ideas and Consequences is nominally about the Federalist Society, founded in the Reagan era to promote conservative views among lawyers. It is young enough to allow Amanda Hollis-Brusky to gather interviews and documentation all the way back to its founders. It is philosophically close to the political Tea Party - conservative, libertarian, almost anarchic in its views on individual rights and local governance.The Federalist Society has three pillars: that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to the US Constitution, and that it
Amanda Hollis-Brusky is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College where she teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legal Institutions, and American Politics. She has written on the conservative legal movement, the Christian Lawyering movement, Originalism, and Executive power. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Law and Social Inquiry and Studies in
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