Laws Promise, Laws Expression: Visions of Power in the Politics of Race, Gender, and Religion

by Kenneth L. Karst

Book Overview

In this text a constitutional law scholar argues that most of the social-issues agenda for law violates the constitutional principle of equal citizenship. The conservative social-issues agenda is targeted at voters who have felt left out by other civil rights movements.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300057601
• ISBN13: 9780300057607
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A most intelligent book

Many social science books are propaganda pieces for a particular viewpoint or ideology. Not this one. This one is a calm, cool, and collected analysis of why the conservative social-issue agenda is not a true defense of any family value but an effort to push the political interests of those with an old-time white male evangelical Christian ideal, at the expense of everyone else -- blacks, women, libertarians, Native Americans, Jews, other non-christians, etc. On the other hand, this book is not a textbook, and does require some prior knowledge of U.S. constitutional law. It may be easier to understand to readers with at least a college-level government or constitutional law class.