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Vital Tissues Of The Spirit: Constitutional Emotions In The Antebellum United States, Doni Gewirtzman Jan 2017

Vital Tissues Of The Spirit: Constitutional Emotions In The Antebellum United States, Doni Gewirtzman

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This Chapter provides a framework for examining the ambivalent and reciprocal relationship between emotions and constitutional law through three interrelated lenses: text, instrument, and symbol. In the years before the Civil War, discourse about feelings impacted institutional struggles for interpretive supremacy over the constitutional text, affected the Constitution’s ability to function as a legal mechanism for emotion management, and shaped its status as a national symbol.


Book Review: Constitutional Change: Amendment Politics And Supreme Court Litigation Since 1900, By Clement E. Vose, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 1973

Book Review: Constitutional Change: Amendment Politics And Supreme Court Litigation Since 1900, By Clement E. Vose, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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