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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra described Kramer's 2004 book as a wild and interesting interpretation of constitutional history that was beloved by both Newt Gingrich and Ralph Nader.
His 2004 book, The People Themselves, Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, is this wild and really interesting interpretation of our constitutional history that has the unusual accolade of b...
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Episode: Liberals Need a Clearer Vision of the Constitution...
Ezra described Kramer's 2004 book as a wild and interesting interpretation of constitutional history that was beloved by both Newt Gingrich and Ralph Nader.
His 2004 book, The People Themselves, Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, is this wild and really interesting interpretation of our constitutional history that has the unusual accolade of being beloved by both Newt Gingrich and Ralph Nader.
The argument he makes there, and that he made to me here, is that around the rise of the Warren court, liberals embraced the doctrine of judicial supremacy and saw the Constitution as the purview of judges.