TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franks,Mary Anne
TI  - The cult of the Constitution /Mary Anne Franks
SN  - 9781503609105
AV  - KF4749 .C858 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - United States --
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 1st Amendment
KW  - 2nd Amendment
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - United States
KW  - Freedom of expression
KW  - Firearms
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Equality before the law
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - ACLU
KW  - First Amendment
KW  - Fourteenth Amendment
KW  - Internet
KW  - NRA
KW  - Second Amendment
KW  - equal protection
KW  - free speech
KW  - fundamentalism
KW  - gun rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : who we are --; The cult of the constitution --; The cult of the gun --; The cult of free speech --; The cult of the internet --; Conclusion : until we all are free; 2; b
N2  - "In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Constitution elevate certain constitutional rights above all others, benefit the most powerful members of society, and undermine the integrity of the document as a whole. The conservative fetish for the Second Amendment (enforced by groups such as the NRA) provides an obvious example of constitutional fundamentalism; the liberal fetish for the First Amendment (enforced by groups such as the ACLU) is less obvious but no less influential. Economic and civil libertarianism have increasingly merged to produce a deregulatory, 'free-market' approach to constitutional rights that achieves fullest expression in the idealization of the Internet. The worship of guns, speech, and the Internet in the name of the Constitution has blurred the boundaries between conduct and speech and between veneration and violence. But the Constitution itself contains the antidote to fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution lays bare the dark, antidemocratic consequences of constitutional fundamentalism and urges readers to take the Constitution seriously, not selectively" --
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