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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... issues is to resign our self-government into the hands of “that eminent tribunal.” At times in the past thirty years Court watchers have predicted a fundamental shift in the Court, a retrenchment of judicial power, due largely to the ...
... issues (symbolized by cases such as Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey) that have become so prominent a part of American political and social life since the 1960s—matters regarding life and death, family and sexuality, church ...
... issue is not just the operational integrity of our constitutional system but the existence of the political culture upon which that system rests. This fear of disintegration appears regularly among scholars and Court watchers, and has ...
... issues of public principle are decided finally by majority voting in panels of professional judges, appointed for life, whose decisions are made after, and whose decisions prevail over, decisions made in legislative assemblies by the ...
... issue, save upon certain conditions. This norm is no doubt a concretization of the broader, justificatory principle we find preceding it in the text: no unreasonable searches or seizures. And perhaps that is a specification of a (very ...
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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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