{"product_id":"book-1x96","title":"The Constitutional Bind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of American politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in American political culture, which ties ideals of liberty and equality to assumptions about the inherent goodness of the text's design. \u003cem\u003eThe Constitutional Bind\u003c\/em\u003e explores how a flawed document came to be so glorified and how this has impacted American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today's reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-century phenomenon. Rana connects this widespread idolization to another relatively recent development: the rise of US global dominance. Ultimately, such veneration has had far-reaching consequences: despite offering a unifying language of reform, it has also unleashed an interventionist national security state abroad while undermining the possibility of deeper change at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing how the current constitutional order was forged over the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eThe Constitutional Bind\u003c\/em\u003e also sheds light on an array of movement activists-in Black, Indigenous, feminist, labor, and immigrant politics-who struggled to imagine different constitutional horizons. As time passed, these voices of opposition were excised from memory. Today, they offer essential insights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67150496956720,"sku":"BD1x96","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1x96-Square-cover.png?v=1782488260","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1x96","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}