Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 342 EAN: 9780691023212 ISBN:0691023212 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: November 01, 1989 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press
Editorial Review: In this intriguing book, Levinson examines the history and the substance of our 'civil religion' of the Constitution. Echoes of this tradition are still heard in debates over whether the constitutional holy writ includes custom, secondary texts and history or is restricted to scriptural fundamentalism. Of equal age and intensity is the battle over the proper role of the priests. Is the Constitution what the Justices say it is or does it have a life of its own? . . . The signal virtue of these fascinating travels through the metaphoric and historical life of the secular worship of the Constitution is the challenge . . . to work out the terms of one's own constitutional faith. --Michael Meltsner, "The Nation"
