Law and legitimacy in the Supreme Court /

"The book addresses questions about the roles of law and politics and the challenge of legitimacy in constitutional adjudication in the Supreme Court. With all sophisticated observers recognizing that the Justices' political outlooks influence their decision making, many political scientis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fallon, Richard H., Jr., 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Judicial process > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > États-Unis.
Processus judiciaire > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Constitutional law
Judicial process
Political questions and judicial power
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Legitimacy and judicial authority
  • Constitutional meaning : original public meaning
  • Constitutional meaning : varieties of history that matter
  • Law in the Supreme Court : jurisprudential foundations
  • Law in the Supreme Court : constitutional constraints
  • Constitutional theory and its relation to constitutional practice
  • Sociological, legal, and moral legitimacy : today and tomorrow.

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