Torah and Constitution: Essays in American Jewish Thought (Modern Jewish History)

By Milton Ridvas Konvitz and Milton R. Konvitz

Book Overview

In this work, which spans his entire career, as an expert on the justice system, Milton R. Konvitz analyzes the connections between the Torah and the American Constitution. He elaborates on the centrality of law both in America and in Judaism: the first bound to the Constitution and the Framers, the second bound to Revelation, expanding to a legal system fashioned and refashioned by human interpretation. Konvitz has long been considered a preeminent scholar on First Amendment rights, civil rights, and the law in America. These pieces, compiled here for the first time, gain new resonance as part of an ongoing theme-the accord of American democracy and the Jewish religious tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815627629
• ISBN13: 9780815627623
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"