Author : Paul W. Kahn
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Law
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The Reign of Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reign of Law write by Paul W. Kahn. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Reign of Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first major work to apply to the rule of law the insights of modern cultural theory, ranging from Clifford Geertz to Michel Foucault. Starting from Thomas Paine's observation that "in America, law is king," Paul Kahn asks: What are the elements of our belief in the rule of law? And what are the rhetorical techniques by which the courts maintain this belief? Kahn centers his exploration on the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison - still the greatest of our constitutional cases. Kahn shows that Marbury is the judicial response to President Thomas Jefferson's belief that his election represented a Second American Revolution. Kahn uses the confrontation between president and Court to analyze the contrasting ways in which the revolutionary and the legal imaginations understand and give shape to political events. This contest continues today in the conflicting demands we make for a politics that preserves the past yet celebrates popular innovation.