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we think of constitutional questions as being settled by the Supreme Court, But that is not always the case, nor is it what the framers intended in constructing the threebranch federal government, This volume examines four crucial moments in the United States' political history the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency and the New Deal, and the Reagan revolution to illustrate the Madisonian view that the present rise of judicial supremacy actually runs counter to the Constitution as established at the nation's founding.


George Thomas opens by discussing how the Constitution encourages an antagonistic approach to settling disputes, thereby preserving itself as the nation's fundamental law rather then ceding that role to the president, Congress, or Supreme Court.
In considering the four historical case studies, he focuses on judicial interpretations and the political branches' responses to them to

demonstrate that competing conceptions of constitutional authority and meaning, as well as intergovernmental disputes themselves rather than any specific outcome strengthen the nature of the nation's founding document as a political instrument.


Engagingly written and soundly argued, this study clarifies and highlights the political origins of the nation's foundational document and argues that American constitutionalism is primarily about countervailing power not legal limits enforced by courts.
Fneh. The nicest word I can come up with for this book is “opaque, ” Its actually a pretty interesting argument about Constitutional interpretation, but I wont bother dissecting it here because seriously, when the author said it was the book version of his graduate thesis I went, “ohhhhhhh,” and not in a good way.
Its also one of those books by nonlawyers trying to supersede legal interpretations of something the Constitution, here by using the tools of another discipline, which is fine and dandy until you fail to deal with the legal interpretations on their own lexical terms, so you just look like you dont understand them.
Which I think Thomas actually does, for the most part, so, Fneh. Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name, Other authors with this name: sitelink George Thomassitelink George ThomasLibrarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name, Other authors with this name: sitelink George Thomassitelink George Thomassitelink,