tailieunhanh - The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law

Sometimes a book is so refreshing in its perspective, so innovative, that it promises to revolutionize a field of scholarship. The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law is one such book. It is a bold intervention into the field of constitutional interpretation, a field which Susan Burgess argues has reached a kind of scholarly impasse. Rather than tread the well-worked path with another theory of constitutional meaning, Burgess offers us a cultural studies reading of constitutional scholarship. Her reading focuses on the elusive quest to understand the intent of the Framers of the Constitution. In Burgess’s hands that quest becomes an avenue to think about the relationship. | The Founding Fathers Pop Culture ASHGATE e-BOOK THE FOUNDING FATHERS POP CULTURE AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies this book considers the perennial question of law and politics what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review Rather than promulgating further theories that attempt to legitimize either judicial activism or restraint this work uses narrative analysis popular culture parody and queer theory to better understand and to reconstitute the traditional relationship between fatherhood and judicial review. Unlike traditional top-down public law analyses that focus on elite decision making by courts legislatures or executives this volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end soap operas romance novels tabloid newspapers reality television and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up. In this manner constitutional discourse can begin to be transformed from a dreary parsing of scholarly and juristic argot into a vibrant discussion with points of access and understanding for all. For .