That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the ConstitutionChristopher Wolfe Princeton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 páginas The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? Or should it confine itself to enforcing specific constitutional provisions, leaving other issues (even those of rights) to the democratic process? |
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Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution Christopher Wolfe. This page intentionally left blank Introduction Christopher Wolfe At the same time the candid citizen.
... citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties ...
... citizens understand only dimly and that even some sophisticated judges and lawyers believe should have no applicability in any constitutional case? Intellectualizations about fidelity to precedent can be, I know, beautiful to the ...
... Citizens can accept the prerogative of judges to decide constitutional cases while still believing that Supreme Court justices are capable of serious errors and, therefore, are a fallible source of constitutional ideals. In fact, both ...
... citizens of the United States could not see themselves through their constitutional ideals? A variety of serious observers have said that for Americans to see themselves without constitutional ideals would be for Americans to see ...
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CHAPTER 3 Casey at the BatTaking Another Swing at Planned Parenthood v Casey | 37 |
The Vices of the Judges Enter a New Stage | 59 |
CHAPTER 5 Judicial Power and the Withering of Civil Society | 85 |
CHAPTER 6 The Academy the Courts and the Culture of Rationalism | 97 |
CHAPTER 7 Judicial Moral Expertise and RealWorld Constraints on Judicial Moral Reasoning | 118 |
CHAPTER 8 Toward a More Balanced History of the Supreme Court | 141 |
CHAPTER 9 Judicial Review and Republican Government Jeremy Waldron | 159 |
Supreme Legislator or Prudent Umpire? | 181 |
CHAPTER 11 The Rehnquist Court and Conservative Judicial Activism | 199 |
Index | 225 |
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