Overruled? : Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary Court-Congress Relations.
Jeb Barnes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He is currently a research fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley--Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Jeb Barnes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He is currently a research fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley--Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of overrides--laws that explicitly seek to reverse or modify judicial interpretations of statutes. Whether front-page news or not, overrides serve potentially vital functions in American policy-making. Federal statutes--and court cases interpreting them--often require revision. Some are ambigu. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (367 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780804767200 0804767203 |