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Multiculturalism and states' rights: An analysis of the contemporary and historical presence of community-based constitutionalism in American political discourse.

机译：多元文化主义与国家权利：对美国政治话语中基于社区的立宪主义的当代和历史存在的分析。

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Multiculturalism and states' rights are familiar topics in contemporary American political discourse. They are generally understood as competing or opposing ideas, with multiculturalism representing the "liberal" idea that policy should reflect and respect cultural diversity and difference and states' rights representing the "conservative" idea that policy should unify or assimilate cultural difference. While these representations of multiculturalism and states' rights accurately depict the contemporary politics expressed through these topics, they ignore an historical record that demonstrates multiculturalism and states' rights to belong to a family of constitutional understandings that has been present since the nation's founding. This family normatively views American constitutionalism as based on substantive community commitments rather than individual self-interest and regards local rather than national community as the primary political community to which individuals hold their strongest and most enduring political attachments.; This dissertation explores the constitutional understandings advanced through multiculturalism and states' rights and argues that these topics are mutually informing ideas in contemporary American constitutional discourse. It seeks to demonstrate how the competing political meanings expressed through these topics conceal their common attachment to a community-based understanding of American constitutionalism. Community-based constitutionalism has been widely rejected by political and legal scholars as an improper interpretation of our written and unwritten constitution and an individualist, nationalist interpretation has prevailed in all periods of critical domestic conflict including the ratification, Civil War, New Deal, and Civil Rights periods. This dissertation argues that multiculturalism and states' rights together represent a contemporary challenge to the historically dominant interpretation of American constitutionalism. The constitutional understandings shared by multiculturalism and states' rights demonstrate a central paradox of American constitutional discourse: Political opposites speak to and inform each another in ways that elude conventional understandings of political ideas. The ultimate goal of this dissertation is to illustrate how multiculturalism and states' rights are mutually informing topics in American political discourse.
机译：多元文化主义和国家权利是当代美国政治话语中的常见话题。人们通常将它们理解为竞争或对立的思想，多元文化主义代表“自由”思想，即政策应反映并尊重文化多样性和差异，而国家权利代表“保守”思想，即政策应统一或吸收文化差异。尽管这些对多元文化主义和国家权利的描述准确地描绘了通过这些主题表达的当代政治，但它们却忽略了一个历史记录，该历史记录表明了自建国以来就已经存在的多元文化主义和国家权利属于一系列宪政理解。这个家庭在规范上认为美国宪政是基于实质性社区承诺而不是个人自身利益，并将地方而不是民族社区视为个人拥有最强大和最持久政治依恋的主要政治社区。本文探讨了通过多元文化主义和国家权利推动的宪法理解，并认为这些主题是当代美国宪法话语中相互启发的观念。它试图证明通过这些主题表达的相互竞争的政治含义如何隐藏它们对基于社区对美国宪政的理解的共同依恋。基于社区的立宪主义已被政治和法律学者广泛拒绝，因为它对我们的成文宪法和不成文宪法进行了不正确的解释，而个人主义，民族主义的解释在包括批准，内战，新政和内战在内的严重国内冲突的所有时期都盛行。权利期限。本文认为，多元文化主义和国家权利共同构成了对美国宪政历史上占主导地位的解释的当代挑战。多元文化主义和国家权利所共有的宪法理解表明了美国宪法话语的一个中心悖论：政治对立面以传统的对政治思想的理解所无法实现的方式相互交流和交流。本论文的最终目的是说明多元文化主义和国家权利如何在美国政治话语中相互启发。

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    Davis, Terri Burney.;

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    The University of Texas at Austin.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Texas at Austin.;
  • 学科 Political Science General.; Law.; American Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1997
  • 页码 211 p.
  • 总页数 211
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 政治理论;法律;
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