TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frohnen,Bruce P.
AU  - Carey,George W.
TI  - Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law
SN  - 9780674968905
AV  - KF4550 .F76 2016eb
U1  - 342.73 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Delegated legislation
KW  - Executive power
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - Rule of law
KW  - LAW / Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: A Conflict of Expectations --; 1. The Rule of Law --; 2. Constitutions: Ends, Means, and the Structure of Government --; 3. The Framers’ Constitution --; 4. Progressives and Administrative Governance --; 5. Progressive Reformers and the Framers’ Constitution --; 6. The New Dispensation and the Rise of Quasi-Law --; Conclusion: The Plural Structure of Society and the Limits of Law --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Americans are ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other quasi-laws designed to reform society, Bruce Frohnen and George Carey argue. Consequently, the Constitution no longer means what it says to the people it is supposed to govern and the government no longer acts according to the rule of law
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968905
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674968905
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674968905/original
ER  -