The cloaking of power : Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the rise of judicial activism /
How did the U.S. judiciary become so powerful-powerful enough that state and federal judges vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy both in America and internationally?In The Cloaking of Power, Paul O. Carrese provi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1: Montesquieu's jurisprudence and new judicial power
- Moderating liberalism and common law: spirit and juridical liberty
- Moderate and juridical government: the spirit of constitutional liberty
- Projects for reform: due process, national spirit, and liberal toleration
- The new aristocracy of the robe: history, reason, and judicial prudence
- 2: Blackstone and the Montesquieuan constitution
- Blackstone's liberal education for law and politics
- A gothic and liberal Constitution: Blackstone's tempering of sovereignty
- Blackstone, Lord Mansfield, and common-law liberalism
- 3: Montesquieu's judicial legacy in America
- Hamilton's common-law constitutionalism and judicial prudence
- Tocqueville's judicial statesmanship and common-law spirit
- Holmes and judicialized liberalism
- Conclusion: the cloaking of power and the perpetuation of constitutionalism.