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2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
1. Introduction: Interpreting America’s Two Constitutions—Looking Through an Environmental Lens
verfasst von : Franklin Kalinowski
Erschienen in: America's Environmental Legacies
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Abstract
America’s Environmental Legacies focuses on one big issue in the current environmental debate: the capacity of the American political system to respond to ecological, social, and economic threats. Any particular response consists of an agenda determining how we perceive the situation and the policies we recommend, the constraints placed on the policy-making process by our written Constitution, and the direction our collective will takes in seeking resolution of these challenges. This collective will is our unwritten constitution and can be found in the values, habits, and traditions of American culture. The term “the American Constitution” must be understood, therefore, as referring both to the formal, written document created in Philadelphia in 1787 and to the environmental legacies articulated and passed down by key members of our Founding generation. Looking at our constitution in both of these senses reveals the sources of our crises and the deeper American values we can tap into for resolution of these interconnected challenges.