TY  - CHAP
AB  - While many see the 1960s as the era of a “rights revolution” in American law, this article looks back from the present moment of conservative legal dominance to better understand the ways in which conservative ideas began to grow during the heyday of legal liberalism. Using recent histories of post-1945 grassroots conservatism, the author argues that conservative rights claims – while often legally questionable – constituted for many a powerful and persuasive understanding of the Constitution. Due to this popular conservative jurisprudence's endurance and influence, its existence in the 1960s forces reconsideration of understandings of the 1960s as the era of the “rights revolution.”
VL  - 48
SN  - 978-1-84855-930-1, 978-1-84855-931-8/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1108/S1059-4337(2009)0000048005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2009)0000048005
AU  - Hilbink Thomas
ED  - Austin Sarat
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - The right's revolution?: Conservatism and the meaning of rights in modern America
T2  - Special Issue Revisiting Rights
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 43
EP  - 67
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -