A doubtful and perilous experiment : advisory opinions, state constitutions, and judicial supremacy /

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The story of attempts to defend advisory authority, including several attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution to require the Supreme Court to issues them. It tells the story also of the uneasy relation between advisory opinions and judicial review as well as the expansion of judicial power.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Topf, Mel A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Advisory opinions > United States > States.
Judicial review > United States > States.
Constitutional law > United States > States.
Contrôle juridictionnel des lois > États-Unis > États.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Constitutional law > U.S. states.
Judicial review > U.S. states.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • This peculiar obligation : the problem of state supreme courts as advisors
  • Danger of grave abuses : attacks on the legitimacy of advisory opinions
  • To create a power to refuse : the rise of a jurisprudence of advisory opinions
  • Useful instrument of government : defending advisory opinions
  • An offer that can't be refused : judicial review and the failed attempts to distinguish advice and decisions
  • Advisory opinions and judicial supremacy : constitutionalism, a politicized judiciary, and the eclipse of civic debate.

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