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Taking back the Constitution : activist judges and the next age of American law /

"The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a case should be decided. Mark Tushnet tra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tushnet, Mark, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: Where we are now
  • Calling balls and strikes
  • Originalisms
  • Playing politics
  • "We've done enough" : the constitutional law of race
  • The court and conservative movements
  • Culture wars, yesterday and today
  • Part two: Where a modern Republican Supreme Court might take us
  • Strengthening a new constitutional order : partisan entrenchment and fulfilling campaign pledges
  • The business agenda
  • Deconstructing the administrative state
  • Possibilities thwarted and revived
  • The weaponized First Amendment
  • Part three: Progressive alternatives : the short run
  • Winning elections, enacting statutes
  • Putting courts on the progressive agenda
  • Playing constitutional hardball
  • Part four: Progressive alternatives : the long run
  • Popular constitutionalism versus judicial supremacy
  • Amending the Constitution
  • Conclusion: 2020 and after
  • Appendix: Strategies of Supreme Court decision-making.