Moral Legitimacy, Creedal Narratives, and National Identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3441800
AutoresJoseph Margulies (0000-0003-2029-4424, Cornell University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume46
Fascículo1
Páginas90-104
Data de publicação2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
EditoraMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/jinh_a_00797
OpenAlexW2124676160
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas13

Scholars sometimes misunderstand the role that law plays in achieving social change. Law in the United States represents the codification of normative ideologies, or creedal narratives. New ideologies can take hold in society only as the result of deep and wide structural changes that cause the gradual erosion of others. Lawmakers-whether judicial or political-eventually give these new ideologies legitimacy. Contrary to Bruce Ackerman's contention in We the People, the law follows social change, not vice versa

Aesthetics · Identity (music) · Ideology · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American Political and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society