Making our democracy work a judge's view
Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf
2011
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000250389708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Judicial review : the democratic anomaly
- Establishing judicial review : Marbury v. Madison
- The Cherokees
- Dred Scott
- Little Rock
- A present-day example
- The basic approach
- Congress, statutes, and purposes
- The executive branch, administrative action, and comparative expertise
- The states and federalism : decentralization and subsidiarity
- Other federal courts : specialization
- Past court decisions : stability
- Individual liberty : permanent values and proportionality
- The President, national security, and accountability : Korematsu
- Presidential power : Guantánamo and accountability.
