

51 Imperfect Solutions
States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
Author: Jeffrey S. Sutton
Narrator: David Drummond
Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 08/28/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Political Science, American Government, Constitutional Law
Synopsis
The book tells four stories that arise in four different areas of constitutional law: equal protection; criminal procedure; privacy; and free speech and free exercise of religion. Traditional accounts of these bedrock debates about the relationship of the individual to the state focus on decisions of the United States Supreme Court. But these explanations tell just part of the story. The book corrects this omission by looking at each issue—and some others as well—through the lens of many constitutions, not one constitution; of many courts, not one court; and of all American judges, not federal or state judges. Taken together, the stories reveal a remarkably complex, nuanced, ever-changing federalist system.