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The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive
overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the
perspectives of history, political science, law, rights, and
constitutional themes, while focusing on its development,
structures, rights, and role in the U.S. political system and
culture. This Handbook enables readers within and beyond the U.S.
to develop a critical comprehension of the literature on the
Constitution, along with accessible and up-to-date analysis. The
historical essays included in this Handbook cover the Constitution
from 1620 right through the Reagan Revolution to the present.
Essays on political science detail how contemporary citizens in the
United States rely extensively on political parties, interest
groups, and bureaucrats to operate a constitution designed to
prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics and an
entrenched bureaucracy. The essays on law explore how contemporary
citizens appear to expect and accept the exertions of power by a
Supreme Court, whose members are increasingly disconnected from the
world of practical politics. Essays on rights discuss how
contemporary citizens living in a diverse multi-racial society seek
guidance on the meaning of liberty and equality, from a
Constitution designed for a society in which all politically
relevant persons shared the same race, gender, religion and
ethnicity. Lastly, the essays on themes explain how in a
"globalized" world, people living in the United States can continue
to be governed by a constitution originally meant for a society
geographically separated from the rest of the "civilized world."
Whether a return to the pristine constitutional institutions of the
founding or a translation of these constitutional norms in the
present is possible remains the central challenge of U.S.
constitutionalism today.
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