1937 Redux?: Reflections on Constitutional Development and Political Structures

Tushnet, Mark

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2002771

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1937 Redux?: Reflections on Constitutional Development and Political Structures

Mark Tushnet

Harvard Law School

February 10, 2012

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 12-05

Abstract:
This Essay, forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, argues that ideas associated with the field of American political development can assist constitutional scholars interested in constitutional development. It speculatively examines structural features of contemporary constitutional politics using such ideas as the possibility that President Obama is (or might be) a reconstructive or transformative President and the institutional thickening of structures of resistance to reconstruction, to suggest how APD ideas might be of use in setting the contingencies of quotidian politics into a larger structural framework.

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Keywords: American political development, Barack Obama, constitutional development

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Date posted: February 11, 2012 ; Last revised: February 16, 2012

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Tushnet, Mark V., 1937 Redux?: Reflections on Constitutional Development and Political Structures (February 10, 2012). University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming; Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 12-05. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2002771 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2002771

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