{"product_id":"toward-a-usable-past-liberty-under-state-constitutions-9780820334967","title":"Toward a Usable Past: Liberty Under State Constitutions","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Finkelman | Stephen E. Gottlieb | Mary L. Dudziak\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Legal History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States Supreme Court's relegation of many rights to definition under state constitutional law, combined with the tendency of recent administrations to entrust the states with the task of preserving individual rights, is increasingly making state constitutions the arena where the battles to preserve the rights to life, liberty, property, due process, and equal protection of laws must be fought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging in time from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, \u003ci\u003eToward a Usable Past\u003c\/i\u003e offers a series of case studies that examine the protection afforded individual rights by state constitutions and state constitutional law. As it explores the history of liberty at the state level, this volume also investigates the promise and risks of turning to state constitutions to guarantee and expand individual rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, major scholars and legal practitioners discuss state protections of civil liberty, and ponder the contemporary implications of the state record. The cases examined cover topics ranging from religion in schools during the Federalist era to criminal justice in the late nineteenth century, from racial integration in Kansas before \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e to legal battles over birth control in the Connecticut Supreme Court. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe introduction presents the historical and contemporary significance of the topic and traces the evolution of the federal constitutional law establishing the parameters of state regulation of individual rights.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47584227328151,"sku":"9780820334967","price":4165.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820334967.webp?v=1774955065","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/toward-a-usable-past-liberty-under-state-constitutions-9780820334967","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}