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Terms of Engagement : How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government.
The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America's judges have largely abdicated that responsibi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Encounter Books,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America's judges have largely abdicated that responsibility. All too often, instead of judging the constitutionality of government action, courts simply rationalize it, as the Supreme Court did in upholding the Affordable Care Act, which represented the largest?and most blatantly unconstitutional?expansion of federal power since the New Deal. T. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781594036972 1594036977 |