On constitutional disobedience /
What would the framers of the U.S. Constitution make of multinational corporations? Nuclear weapons? Gay marriage? They led a preindustrial country, much of it dependent on slave labor, huddled on the Atlantic seaboard. The Founders saw society as essentially hierarchical, led naturally by landed ge...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Inalienable rights series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | What would the framers of the U.S. Constitution make of multinational corporations? Nuclear weapons? Gay marriage? They led a preindustrial country, much of it dependent on slave labor, huddled on the Atlantic seaboard. The Founders saw society as essentially hierarchical, led naturally by landed gentry like themselves. Yet their commands are still obeyed two centuries and one civil war later. According to this book's author, it is time to stop. The author argues that, in order to bring U.S. basic law up to date, it needs benign neglect. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 162 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190260125 0190260122 |