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The Other Rights Revolution - Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government (Hardcover)
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The Other Rights Revolution - Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit,
public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending
conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific
Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory
state-the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic
processes that govern the way Americans do business. Believing that
the growing size and complexity of government regulations
threatened U.S. economy and infringed on property rights, Pacific
Legal Foundation began to file a series of lawsuits challenging the
government's power to plan the use of private land or protect
environmental qualities. By the end of the decade, they had been
joined in this effort by spin-off legal foundations across the
country. The Other Rights Revolution explains how a little-known
collection of lawyers and politicians-with some help from angry
property owners and bulldozer-driving Sagebrush Rebels-tried to
bring liberal government to heel in the final decades of the
twentieth century. Decker demonstrates how legal and constitutional
battles over property rights, preservation, and the environment
helped to shape the political ideas and policy agendas of modern
conservatism. By uncovering the history-including the regionally
distinctive experiences of the American West-behind the
conservative mobilization in the courts, Decker offers a new
interpretation of the Reagan-era right.
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