The Spirit of '76 and the Spirit of January 6
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 560-578
ISSN: 2161-1599
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In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 560-578
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 857-859
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 1154-1156
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 132, Heft 1, S. 153-155
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: American Conservatism, S. 211-255
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 129, Heft 1, S. 169-170
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 129, Heft 1, S. 169-170
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 586-593
ISSN: 1528-4190
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 180-183
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Studies in American political development: SAPD, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 86-116
ISSN: 1469-8692
Contemporary conservatism places an affinity for, fidelity to, and defense of the U.S. Constitution at the center of its electoral, institutional, and movement politics. Through a survey of popular constitutional discourse in postwar conservatism's premiere magazine,National Reviewbetween 1955 and 1980—presented in the context of the development of (conservative) political thought and the institutional infrastructure for idea generation and propagation—I argue that that defense began to assume an ecumenically populist, antielitist, and antijudicial form only beginning in the mid-1950s, and a shared commitment to "originalism" only in the late 1970s. From the 1950s through the late 1970s, conservative constitutional argument was centered not on the judiciary, but rather on the (often divisive) constitutionalism of Congress and the executive, and on divergent views concerning structuralist versus moralist constitutional understandings. Over time, however, through dialogic engagement taking place over and through unfolding political events, the movement's diverse intellectual strands reframed and reinforced their relationship by focusing less on their differences and more on an ecumenically shared populist critique of judicial power emphasizing a virtuousdemosarrayed against an ideologically driven, antidemocratic, law-wielding elite. During this formative period, besides advocating a particular approach to textual interpretation, constitutional discourse played a critical role in fashioning movement symbols and signifiers, forming hopes and apprehensions, defining threats and reassurances, marking friends and enemies, stimulating feelings of belonging and alienation, fidelity and betrayal, and evoking both rational logics and intense emotions—all of which motivate and inform the heavily constitutionalized politics of American conservatism today.
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 180-183
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Studies in American Political Development, pp. 1-31, Spring 2011
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In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 180-183
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Social Philosophy and Policy, Band 25, S. 53-75
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