TY - BOOK AU - Tushnet,Mark V. AU - Levinson,Sanford AU - Graber,Mark A. TI - Oxford handbook of the U.S. Constitution SN - 9780190245788 AV - KF4550 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Oxford University Press KW - Constitutional law KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This work provides a comprehensive guide to the United States Constitution. It examines constitutional developments based on a periodization scheme that partly reflects important changes in constitutional governance, from the Jacksonian Era to the beginning of the 1980s. The book's general historical institutionalist orientation blurs precise distinctions between political science and law, with particular reference to the role of political parties, interest groups, and bureaucrats in operating a constitution designed to prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics, and an entrenched bureaucracy UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190245757.001.0001 ER -