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The Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government
The Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government
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In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and
bureaucratic processes that govern the way Americans do business. Believing that the growing size and complexity of government regulations threatened U.S. economy and infringed on property rights, Pacific Legal Foundation began to file a series of lawsuits challenging the government's power to plan
the use of private land or protect environmental qualities. By the end of the decade, they had been joined in this effort by spin-off legal foundations across the country. The Other Rights Revolution explains how a little-known collection of lawyers and politicians--with some help from angry property owners and bulldozer-driving Sagebrush Rebels--tried to bring liberal government to heel in the final decades of the twentieth century. Decker demonstrates how legal and
constitutional battles over property rights, preservation, and the environment helped to shape the political ideas and policy agendas of modern conservatism. By uncovering the history--including the regionally distinctive experiences of the American West--behind the conservative mobilization in the
courts, Decker offers a new interpretation of the Reagan-era right.
Author: Jefferson Decker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190467319
Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2017
bureaucratic processes that govern the way Americans do business. Believing that the growing size and complexity of government regulations threatened U.S. economy and infringed on property rights, Pacific Legal Foundation began to file a series of lawsuits challenging the government's power to plan
the use of private land or protect environmental qualities. By the end of the decade, they had been joined in this effort by spin-off legal foundations across the country. The Other Rights Revolution explains how a little-known collection of lawyers and politicians--with some help from angry property owners and bulldozer-driving Sagebrush Rebels--tried to bring liberal government to heel in the final decades of the twentieth century. Decker demonstrates how legal and
constitutional battles over property rights, preservation, and the environment helped to shape the political ideas and policy agendas of modern conservatism. By uncovering the history--including the regionally distinctive experiences of the American West--behind the conservative mobilization in the
courts, Decker offers a new interpretation of the Reagan-era right.
Author: Jefferson Decker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190467319
Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2017
About the Author
Jefferson Decker is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University
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