{"product_id":"9780226350721-constitutional-bind","title":"The Constitutional Bind","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of American politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in American political culture, which ties ideals of liberty and equality to assumptions about the inherent goodness of the text’s design. \u003ci\u003eThe Constitutional Bind\u003c\/i\u003e explores how a flawed document came to be so glorified and how this has impacted American life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-century phenomenon. Rana connects this widespread idolization to another relatively recent development: the rise of US global dominance. Ultimately, such veneration has had far-reaching consequences: despite offering a unifying language of reform, it has also unleashed an interventionist national security state abroad while undermining the possibility of deeper change at home. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Revealing how the current constitutional order was forged over the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Constitutional Bind\u003c\/i\u003e also sheds light on an array of movement activists—in Black, Indigenous, feminist, labor, and immigrant politics—who struggled to imagine different constitutional horizons. As time passed, these voices of opposition were excised from memory. Today, they offer essential insights. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41681691770977,"sku":"9780226350721","price":44.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28888987.jpg?v=1725635048","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226350721-constitutional-bind","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}