Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9198596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bertell Ollman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 18 |
| Publication date | 1987-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-039-07-1987-11_2 |
| OpenAlex | W1990829799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
When Moses invented ten fundamental laws for the Jewish people, he had God write them down on stone tablets. Lycurgus, too, represented the constitution he drew up for ancient Sparta as a divine gift. According to Plato, whose book, The Republic offers another version of the same practice, attributing the origins of a constitution to godly intervention is the most effective way of securing the kind of support needed for it to work. Otherwise, some people are likely to remain skeptical, others passive, and still others critical of whatever biases they perceive in these basic laws and hence less inclined to follow their mandates.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Aesthetics · Constitution · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Intervention (counseling) · Linguistics · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |