Erwin Chemerinsky. (2018). We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century. Picador.

Erwin Chemerinsky. 2018. We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century. Picador.

Erwin Chemerinsky, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century. Picador, 2018.

Erwin Chemerinsky. We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century. Picador, 2018.

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   • bioText: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of UC Berkeley School of Law. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. His books include The Conservative Assault on the Constitution and The Case Against the Supreme Court, among many others. In January 2017, National Jurist magazine again named him the most influential person in legal education in the United States.
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"This work will become the defining text on progressive constitutionalism — a parallel to Thomas Picketty's contribution but for all who care deeply about constitutional law. Beautifully written and powerfully argued, this is a masterpiece." —Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, and author of Free Culture

Worried about what a super conservative majority on the Supreme Court means for the future of civil liberties? From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the U.S. Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now.
University of California Berkeley Dean and respected legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky expertly exposes how conservatives are using the Constitution to advance their own agenda that favors business over consumers and employees, and government power over individual rights.
But exposure is not enough. Progressives have spent too much of the last forty-five years trying to preserve the legacy of the Warren Court's most important rulings and reacting to the Republican-dominated Supreme Courts by criticizing their erosion of rights—but have not yet developed a progressive vision for the Constitution itself. Yet, if we just look to the promise of the Preamble—liberty and justice for all—and take seriously its vision, a progressive reading of the Constitution can lead us forward as we continue our fight ensuring democratic rule, effective government, justice, liberty, and equality.
Includes the Complete Constitution and Amendments of the United States of America

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   • source: Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of Chicago, and author of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime
   • content: "Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, one of our nation's leading constitutional scholars, has written a masterful guide on how progressives should think about constitutional law as we move forward in the twenty-first century. After thoroughly discrediting the conservatives' bogus claims of being committed to originalism, judicial restraint, and "value-neutral judging," Chemerinsky identifies five fundamental values that should guide our interpretation of the Constitution: ensuring democratic government, providing effective governance, establishing justice, securing liberty, and achieving equality. He then brilliantly demonstrates both why those values should be at the center of constitutional interpretation and how they should play out in the resolution of a broad range of specific constitutional controversies. This is a thoughtful, accessible, and engaging enterprise that should be read by anyone contemplating law school, by all law students, and by lawyers (and other citizens) throughout...
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   • content: "This work will become the DEFINING text on progressive constitutionalism -- a parallel to Thomas Picketty's contribution but for all who care deeply about constitutional law. Beautifully written and powerfully argued, this is a masterpiece."
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     September 24, 2018
     Chemerinsky (Closing the Courthouse Door), dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, articulates an alternative vision for the Supreme Court of the United States in this relatively accessible polemic. To open, he examines the prevailing conservative values and vision of the court, as well as what he considers conservative justices’ false claims of ideological neutrality, delving into “originalism” and its employment as a cover for conservative judicial activism. He also counters arguments that the court should not be able to strike down laws and executive actions, and lays out a case for identifying core values in the U.S. Constitution. In Chemerinsky’s view, the preamble to the Constitution, despite being “largely ignored” or “treated as a mere rhetorical flourish,” holds the key to understanding the values inherent in the document, namely ensuring democratic government, providing effective governance, establishing justice, securing liberty, and achieving equality. The remainder of the book details these five values and cites Supreme Court cases relevant to each. The work has value as a history, and Chemerinsky levies trenchant critiques of the Supreme Court’s recent decision making; however, those who don’t agree with the author that certain liberal values are self-evidently good may not be swayed, and he offers no material way to change the situation.

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     With Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court in October 2018, the Court now solidly represents the conservative legal view. For Chemerinsky, a leading U.S. legal scholar and currently dean of the Berkeley School of Law, there exists an alternative perspective, one that reflects a progressive outlook on the law. Chemerinsky takes issue with the "originalist" ideals of the late Justice Antonin Scalia and others who argue that the Constitution must be interpreted only in the light of what was allegedly the mind-set of the Founding Fathers. Instead, the author believes that the Constitution is a living document that can only best be interpreted through the lens of contemporary thought and culture. He also places a great deal of importance on the Preamble to the Constitution, which inspired the title of this book, and its focus on liberty and justice. VERDICT Those troubled by the Court's trending rightward can take solace in Chemerinsky's learned articulation of a different outlook. His valuable counterpoint to the current Court's dominant view is recommended for all collections.--Ed Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames

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Worried about what a super conservative majority on the Supreme Court means for the future of civil liberties? From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the U.S. Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now.
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