The Tea Party : Three Principles

Authors

Elizabeth Price Foley, Florida International University College of Law

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Excerpt

"In The Tea Party: Three Principles, constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement, asserting that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America's future. Foley sees the Tea Party as a movement of principles over politics. She identifies three "core principles" of American constitutional law that bind the decentralized, wide-ranging movement: limited government, unapologetic U.S. sovereignty, and constitutional originalism. These three principles, Foley explains, both define the Tea Party movement and predict its effect on the American political landscape. Foley explains the three principles' significance to the American founding and constitutional structure. She then connects the principles to current issues as health care reform, illegal immigration, the war on terror, and internationalism"

Description

xvi, 238 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN

9781107011359

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

New York

Keywords

Political Science, Tea Party movement

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Law

Comments

Includes index

Recommended Citation

Foley, Elizabeth Price, "The Tea Party : Three Principles" (2012). Faculty Books. 75.
https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/75