[PDF] The Founding Fathers Pop Culture And Constitutional Law eBook

Author : Susan Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317031415

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Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies, this book considers the perennial question of law and politics: what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review? Susan Burgess uses narrative analysis, popular culture, parody, and queer theory to better understand and to reconstitute the traditional relationship between fatherhood and judicial review. Unlike traditional, top-down public law analyses that focus on elite decision making by courts, legislatures, or executives, this volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up. In this manner, constitutional discourse can begin to be transformed from a dreary parsing of scholarly and juristic argot into a vibrant discussion with points of access and understanding for all.

Author : Susan Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317031423

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Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies, this book considers the perennial question of law and politics: what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review? Susan Burgess uses narrative analysis, popular culture, parody, and queer theory to better understand and to reconstitute the traditional relationship between fatherhood and judicial review. Unlike traditional, top-down public law analyses that focus on elite decision making by courts, legislatures, or executives, this volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up. In this manner, constitutional discourse can begin to be transformed from a dreary parsing of scholarly and juristic argot into a vibrant discussion with points of access and understanding for all.

Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780879723385

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The essays in this book trace many of the multitudinous forces at work on the Constitution and in the popular culture and show how the forces control and benefit each other. The subject is of profound importance and, beginning with these essays, needs to be studied at great length for the benefit of us all.

Author : Nancy Cuzzimano
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781468068979

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The Founding Fathers' Constitution Made for Us is a labor of love. It tells the importance of the Constitution, how it all comes together: from the Declaration of Independence to the Preamble of the Constitution, to the body and finally to Judicial Review. Many of the terms in the book are defined in dictionary. This book is great for all ages, middle school to adults.

Author : Brion McClanahan
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1621570533

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What Does the Constitution Really Mean? Are liberals right when they cite the “elastic” clauses of the Constitution to justify big government? Or are conservatives right when they cite the Constitution’s explicit limits on federal power? The answer lies in a more basic question: How did the founding generation intend for us to interpret and apply the Constitution? Professor Brion McClanahan, popular author of The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Founding Fathers, finds the answers by going directly to the source—to the Founding Fathers themselves, who debated all the relevant issues in their state constitutional conventions. In The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution, you’ll discover: How the Constitution was designed to protect rather than undermine the rights of States Why Congress, not the executive branch, was meant to be the dominant branch of government—and why the Founders would have argued for impeaching many modern presidents for violating the Constitution Why an expansive central government was the Founders’ biggest fear, and how the Constitution—and the Bill of Rights—was designed to guard against it Why the founding generation would regard most of the current federal budget—including “stimulus packages”—as unconstitutional Why the Founding Fathers would oppose attempts to “reform” the Electoral College Why the Founding Fathers would be horrified at the enormous authority of the Supreme Court, and why the Founders intended Congress, not the Court, to interpret federal law Authoritative, fascinating, and timely, The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution is the definitive layman’s guide to America’s most important—and often willfully misunderstood—historical document.

Author : Randy Bell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0989542831

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"The Myths of Our Founding Fathers and Their Constitution" helps us to understand the diversity of thought, the balancing of interests, and the fragility of the 118 Revolutionary and Constitutional Founders of this Republic. It enables us to reflect on the real intentions and human struggles of those Founders, and how they overcame their divisions to create a new whole: the United States of America. From this better understanding, we can more properly draw guidance from them in surmounting our own modern-day divisions.

Author : Vincent Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780910086011

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Biographical sketches and portraits of the signers of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Author : Melvin Eustace Bradford
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Originally published : A worthy company. Marlborough, N.H. : Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982.

Author : Terry L. Jordan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781891743153

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Readers will see the entire text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and much more with interesting insights into the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631063324

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This volume contains the significant documents and writings that established the foundation of the United States of America.