The Supreme Court on Trail

ISBN-13: 9781138538993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str.

David Listokin; Charles Hyneman

Opis

The Supreme Court on Trial is a classic examination of the place of the Supreme Court in the American political system. The purpose of the book is to examine critically the place of the Supreme Court in our political system and to improve the public understanding of what the Supreme Court does, how its acts have been received, and how its way of influencing public policy is related to other methods of making public policy.

Spis treści

I: A Court on Trail; 1: An End to Segregation; 2: A Court on Trial; 3: A Question of Sovereignty; 4: The Judges before Their Peers; 5: The Right to Decide; II: Constitutional Language And Judicial Review; 2: The Constitution Becomes Law; 7: The Great Trial of 1937; 8: How Firm a Foundation?; 9: “Principles . . . Long and Well Established”; 2: Judicial Review under Review; III: The Supreme Court And Public Policy; 7: The Elastic Clauses; 2: What Is Commerce?; 13: To Regulate Commerce among the States; 7: Due Process of Law; IV: A New Constitutional Regime?; 15: The Outlawing of Segregation; 16: Justification of Judgments; 17: A Plea for Boldness in Judges; V: Judicial Power And Democratic Government; 18: A Question of Democracy; 7: A Choice of Forums; 20: Frontiers of Judicial Power

O autorze

David Listokin