The Constitution and the New Deal / / G. Edward White.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: White, G. Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

In a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as "liberal," "conservative," and "reactionary,&q...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Complicating the Conventional Account
• 1. The Conventional Account
• 2. The Transformation of the Constitutional Jurisprudence of Foreign Relations: The Orthodox Regime under Stress
• 3. The Triumph of Executive Discretion in Foreign Relations
• 4. The Emergence of Agency Government and the Creation of Administrative Law
• 5. The Emergence of Free Speech
• II. The Constitutional Revolution as Jurisprudential Crisis
• 6. The Restatement Project and the Crisis of Early Twentieth-Century Jurisprudence
• 7. The Constitutional Revolution as a Crisis in Adaptivity
• III. The Creation of Triumphalist Narratives
• 8. The Myths of Substantive Due Process
• 9. The Canonization and Demonization of Judges
• 10. Cabining the New Deal in Time
• Notes
• Index