Ken I Kersch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1599243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken I Kersch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken I |
| FAMILY NAME | Kersch |
| SIGNATURE | KERSCH K I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Spirit of ’76 and the Spirit of January 6
In recent years, conservative political scientists have increasingly turned away from the textualist and originalist arguments of their legal academic compatriots by reviving defunct historiographical templates to reorient the Right’s constitutionalism around a fundamentalist orthodoxy centered on the Declaration of Independence. This essay considers C. Bradley Thompson’s America’s Revolutionary Mind (2019) as a contribution to this project that …
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Political Peoplehood
In this latest installment of his effort to articulate a comprehensive framework for understanding civic membership and realistically achievable, normatively desirable principles for the relationship between people and political groupings demanding allegiance against other groups, Rogers M. Smith weighs, digests, synthesizes, refines, reflects, theorizes, and proposes. The core political question of “who governs” (p. 6) raises foundational questi…
Risa Goluboff. Vagrant Nation
To characterize Risa Goluboff’s brilliantly conceived Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s as a history of U.S. vagrancy laws is true, but scants the impressive scope, significance, and innovativeness of both her history and her achievement. Law professors and students are passingly familiar with Supreme Court decisions like Robinson v. California (1962) and Papachristou v. Jacksonville (1972)—the forme…
Constitutional Myths
Journal Article Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get it Right Get access Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get it Right by Ray Raphael. New York, The New Press, 2013. 336 pp. $26.95. Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 129, Issue 1, Spring 2014, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12162 Pub…
Ecumenicalism Through Constitutionalism
Contemporary conservatism places an affinity for, fidelity to, and defense of the U.S. Constitution at the center of its electoral, institutional, and movement politics. Through a survey of popular constitutional discourse in postwar conservatism's premiere magazine, National Review between 1955 and 1980—presented in the context of the development of (conservative) political thought and the institutional infrastructure for idea generation and pro…
Welfare and the Constitution
Journal Article Welfare and the Constitution Get access Welfare and the Constitution by Sotirios A. Barber. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2003. 184 pp. $27.95. Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 344–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202353 Published: 15 February 2013
Smoking, progressive liberalism, and the law
In his dissection of the 1998 tobacco settlements, W. Kip Viscusi provides a window on how the ostensibly liberal public philosophy behind the modern American regulatory state betrays its foundational commitments. Animated by a moralizing concern with preventing harm to self, and a leftist antagonism towards corporate capitalism, “progressive liberalism” at first foundered in its war against the tobacco industry in the face of traditional liberal…
Freedom of Speech
An innovative narrative approach combines history, politics, and legal doctrine to explore the origin and evolution of Americans' constitutional right to free speech. In a field dominated by jargon-filled texts and march-of-progress treatments, this book presents an insightful introduction to freedom of speech, skillfully blending legal analysis with accounts of how staunchly contested historical, political, and cultural issues often influenced l…
The Reconstruction of Constitutional Privacy Rights and the New American State
Scholars have accorded the late nineteenth and early twentieth century a uniquely important place in the annals of American political development. During this period, the nation underwent transformations from a rural and agricultural to an urban and industrial society. Underlying these transformations was a revolution in the nature of the country's political economy, which shifted rapidly from a longstanding proprietary-competitive order to an un…
Full Faith and Credit for Same-Sex Marriages
Journal Article Full Faith and Credit for Same-Sex Marriages? Get access Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch is a doctoral candidate in government at Cornell University and a member of the Bar in New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 1996 meeting of the New York State Political Science Association. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Ecumenicalism Through Constitutionalism
Contemporary conservatism places an affinity for, fidelity to, and defense of the U.S. Constitution at the center of its electoral, institutional, and movement politics. Through a survey of popular constitutional discourse in postwar conservatism's premiere magazine, National Review between 1955 and 1980—presented in the context of the development of (conservative) political thought and the institutional infrastructure for idea generation and pro…
Welfare and the Constitution
Journal Article Welfare and the Constitution Get access Welfare and the Constitution by Sotirios A. Barber. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2003. 184 pp. $27.95. Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 344–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202353 Published: 15 February 2013
Full Faith and Credit for Same-Sex Marriages
Journal Article Full Faith and Credit for Same-Sex Marriages? Get access Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch is a doctoral candidate in government at Cornell University and a member of the Bar in New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 1996 meeting of the New York State Political Science Association. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Full Faith and Credit for Same-Sex Marriages
Journal Article Full Faith and Credit for Same-Sex Marriages? Get access Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch is a doctoral candidate in government at Cornell University and a member of the Bar in New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 1996 meeting of the New York State Political Science Association. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
The Reconstruction of Constitutional Privacy Rights and the New American State
Scholars have accorded the late nineteenth and early twentieth century a uniquely important place in the annals of American political development. During this period, the nation underwent transformations from a rural and agricultural to an urban and industrial society. Underlying these transformations was a revolution in the nature of the country's political economy, which shifted rapidly from a longstanding proprietary-competitive order to an un…
Freedom of Speech
An innovative narrative approach combines history, politics, and legal doctrine to explore the origin and evolution of Americans' constitutional right to free speech. In a field dominated by jargon-filled texts and march-of-progress treatments, this book presents an insightful introduction to freedom of speech, skillfully blending legal analysis with accounts of how staunchly contested historical, political, and cultural issues often influenced l…
Welfare and the Constitution
Journal Article Welfare and the Constitution Get access Welfare and the Constitution by Sotirios A. Barber. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2003. 184 pp. $27.95. Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 344–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202353 Published: 15 February 2013
Smoking, progressive liberalism, and the law
In his dissection of the 1998 tobacco settlements, W. Kip Viscusi provides a window on how the ostensibly liberal public philosophy behind the modern American regulatory state betrays its foundational commitments. Animated by a moralizing concern with preventing harm to self, and a leftist antagonism towards corporate capitalism, “progressive liberalism” at first foundered in its war against the tobacco industry in the face of traditional liberal…
Ecumenicalism Through Constitutionalism
Contemporary conservatism places an affinity for, fidelity to, and defense of the U.S. Constitution at the center of its electoral, institutional, and movement politics. Through a survey of popular constitutional discourse in postwar conservatism's premiere magazine, National Review between 1955 and 1980—presented in the context of the development of (conservative) political thought and the institutional infrastructure for idea generation and pro…
Constitutional Myths
Journal Article Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get it Right Get access Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get it Right by Ray Raphael. New York, The New Press, 2013. 336 pp. $26.95. Ken I. Kersch Ken I. Kersch Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 129, Issue 1, Spring 2014, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12162 Pub…
Political Peoplehood
In this latest installment of his effort to articulate a comprehensive framework for understanding civic membership and realistically achievable, normatively desirable principles for the relationship between people and political groupings demanding allegiance against other groups, Rogers M. Smith weighs, digests, synthesizes, refines, reflects, theorizes, and proposes. The core political question of “who governs” (p. 6) raises foundational questi…
Risa Goluboff. Vagrant Nation
To characterize Risa Goluboff’s brilliantly conceived Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s as a history of U.S. vagrancy laws is true, but scants the impressive scope, significance, and innovativeness of both her history and her achievement. Law professors and students are passingly familiar with Supreme Court decisions like Robinson v. California (1962) and Papachristou v. Jacksonville (1972)—the forme…
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An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Spirit of ’76 and the Spirit of January 6
In recent years, conservative political scientists have increasingly turned away from the textualist and originalist arguments of their legal academic compatriots by reviving defunct historiographical templates to reorient the Right’s constitutionalism around a fundamentalist orthodoxy centered on the Declaration of Independence. This essay considers C. Bradley Thompson’s America’s Revolutionary Mind (2019) as a contribution to this project that …
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