The Constitution and American Radicalism.

Lobel, Jules

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ERIC Number: EJ360236

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1987

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The Constitution and American Radicalism.

Lobel, Jules

Social Policy, v18 n1 p20-3 Sum 1987

Discusses the history of the following movements' attitudes towards the Constitution: (1) abolition; (2) feminism; (3) trade unions; (4) socialism and communism; and (5) civil rights and anti-war. Maintains that the tensions in these movements' towards the Constitution represent basic contradictions in the document itself. (PS)

Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Communism, Constitutional Law, Equal Protection, Feminism, Political Issues, Slavery, Social Action, Socialism, Unions, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: United States Constitution

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