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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... discuss the academic charges of “conservative judicial activism” leveled against the Rehnquist Court. I begin by detailing a specific understanding of what constitutes judicial activism, focusing especially on the transformation of ...
... discussion of 3a. Indeed, part 3b appears to restate part 1. If so, the colorful statements of moral equivalence reviewed in 1 are now seen as a theory of value, not sociology. That theory assigns value not to the propositions people ...
... discuss at length not only the immediate legal basis of their reaffirmation that the Constitution protects the right to abortion but also the deeper institutional and political bases of the rule of law and, indeed, of “the country's ...
... discussion seems to redeem fully the portentousness and incompleteness of the opening paragraph of the opinion. The phrase “jurisprudence of doubt” it turns out does, indeed, refer to far more than criticisms of Roe or even of the ...
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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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