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 view...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2010.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Making our democracy work : |b a judge's view / |c Stephen Breyer. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xiv, 270 p. : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Judicial review: the democratic anomaly -- Establishing judicial review -- 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Political questions and judicial power |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Separation of powers |z United States. | |
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