TY - BOOK AU - Balkin,J.M. TI - The cycles of constitutional time T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197531020 AV - KF4552 .B345 2020 U1 - 342.73 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York, NY PB - Jack Balkin KW - Constitutional law KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema KW - Politics and government KW - 2017- N1 - Also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'The Cycles of Constitutional Time' shows where American democracy has been and projects where it is going. Jack Balkin explains why our politics seems so dysfunctional and why fights over the courts seem so bitter and unhinged. He portrays our present troubles in terms of longer, constitutional trends. In doing so, he also offers a message of hope for the future. The same trends that put us in this predicament are slowly changing. Our political system can get better if Americans mobilize to change it UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530993.001.0001 ER -