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Regulatory rights : Supreme Court activism, the public interest, and the making of constitutional law /
We often hear?with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings?that justices should not create constitutional rights, but should instead enforce the rights that the Constitution enshrines. In Regulatory Rights, Larry Yackle sets out to convince readers that such arguments fu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We often hear?with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings?that justices should not create constitutional rights, but should instead enforce the rights that the Constitution enshrines. In Regulatory Rights, Larry Yackle sets out to convince readers that such arguments fundamentally misconceive both the work that justices do and the character of the American Constitution in whose name they do it. It matters who sits on the Supreme Court, he argues, precisely because justices do create individual constitutional rights. Traversing a wide range of Supreme Court decisio. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226944739 0226944735 1281966878 9781281966872 9786611966874 6611966870 |