Autorentext
Paul D. Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution and is the Dean of Faculty at Hillsdale College. He has taught at Hillsdale College for thirteen years and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and the University of Paris School of Law. He earned his doctorate under Herman Belz at the University of Maryland in 1994. Moreno is the author of From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America and Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History.

Klappentext

The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state.

Inhalt

1. The post-war Constitution; 2. The judiciary and private rights; 3. Crisis of 1890s; 4. The new jurisprudence; 5. The due process dialectic; 6. Federal police power; 7. Rooseveltian progressivism; 8. The Lochner incident; 9. Court and Constitution in crisis; 10. Taft and the Republican crack-up; 11. Wilsonian progressivism; 12. The new freedom; 13. The new Wilson; 14. The Great War; 15. The return of the regular republicans; 16. The Taft court; 17. The last progressive; 18. The New Deal; 19. To the brink; 20. The Second New Deal; 21. The court fight; 22. The abortive Third New Deal; 23. The New Deal court.