American constitutionalism
Subtitle: from theory to politics
By: Stephen M. Griffin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States.; Constitutional law -- Philosophy.; United States -- Politics and government.
Description: Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience.

He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by judicial practice in the United States over the past three centuries, particularly since the Warren Court, and locates both theory and practices that have inspired dispute among jurists and scholars in historical context. At the same time he advances an argument about the distinctive nature of American constitutionalism, regarding it as an instance of the interpenetration of law and politics.

. American Constitutionalism is unique in considering the perspectives of both law and political science in relation to constitutional theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.