Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780739102862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str.

Ralph A. Rossum

Opis

Ralph A. Rossum argues that it is the ultimate irony of constitutional democracy that an amendment intended to promote democracy, even at the expense of federalism, has been been undermined by an activist Supreme Court intent on protecting federalism, at the expense of democracy.