The constitution in the courts : law or politics.

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This work analyses the contemporary legal debates which are at the centre of the current controversies over the Supreme Court. Perry stakes out a middle ground, saying that there is an original meaning to the Constitution and that it authorized broad judicial discretion.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perry, Michael J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Judicial power > United States.
Judicial review > United States.
Pouvoir judiciaire > États-Unis.
Contrôle juridictionnel des lois > États-Unis.
Constitutional law
Judicial power
Judicial review
United States > Constitutional law > Interpretation and construction.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; 1. Constitutional Adjudication: Law or Politics?; 2. The Argument for Judicial Review; 3. The Argument for the Originalist Approach to Judicial Review; 4. Originalism Does Not Entail Minimalism, I: The Indeterminacy of History; 5. Originalism Does Not Entail Minimalism, II: The Indeterminacy of Morality; 6. Skepticism about Minimalism--and about Nonminimalism, Too; 7. The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; 8. The Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment, I: Equal Protection; 9. The Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment, II: Substantive Due Process.

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