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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... traditional American separation of powers. And, third, the “new class” professionals—such as journalists, those working in the entertainment media, and writers and artists—whose power and influence turn on 2 • Introduction.
... influence turn on the ability to manipulate information, and who typically tend to support liberal intellectuals, also tend to weigh in against any efforts to restore a proper balance between judges and the political branches. Even ...
... influence on the courts is more indirect: the legal academy's inculcation of a “culture of rationalism.” This rationalism has three principal components: a discourse of instrumental rationality; a perpetual roving commission to ferret ...
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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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