{"product_id":"the-child-before-the-court-timothy-barouch-9780817320980","title":"The Child Before the Court: Judgment, Citizenship, and the Constitution","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Many of the most controversial political issues of our time focus on the actions and well-being of children such as Greta Thunberg's climate movement; youth activists standing up for racial justice, safe schools, and an equitable economy; and the furor over separating migrant children from their families. When do we treat children as competent citizens, when do we treat them as dependents in need of protection, and why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Child before the Court: Judgment, Citizenship, and the Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e provides answers to these foundational questions. It analyzes landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal judgment are deeply contested concepts instead of simple character traits. These cases serve as analytic touchstones for these problems, and the Court's opinions seemingly articulate clear rules through a pragmatic balancing of interests. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Timothy Barouch shows how these cases continually reshape constitutional thought, breaking from a vocabulary of wardship and recasting the child as a liberal individual. He analyzes these legal opinions as judicial novelizations and focuses on their rhetorical markers: the range of tropes, idioms, figures, and arguments that emerge across nearly two centuries of jurisprudence in this important but oft-neglected area. The careful and subtle readings of these cases demonstrate how judicial representations of the child provide key resources for thinking about the child as citizen and, more broadly, citizenship itself. It serves as a bold call to think through the relationship between the liberal individual and the problem of civic judgment as it manifests in public culture in a wide array of contexts at a time when liberal democracy is under siege. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Barouch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817320989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817320980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Timothy Barouch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990994485503,"sku":"9780817320980","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0967ced7-80ac-4f22-91da-62943eb16763.jpg?v=1683307837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-child-before-the-court-timothy-barouch-9780817320980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}