Making our democracy work : a judge's view / Stephen Breyer.
Making our democracy work : a judge's view / Stephen Breyer.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N347.7312/7
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English
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xiv, 270 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The people's trust. Judicial review : the democratic anomaly ; Establishing judicial review : Marbury v. Madison ; The Cherokees ; Dred Scott ; Little Rock ; A present-day example -- Decisions that work. The basic approach ; Congress, statutes, and purposes ; The executive branch, administrative act...
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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2010.
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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 pragmati...
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Making our democracy work : a judge's view / Stephen Breyer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index.
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N347.7312/7
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0307269914
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347.7312
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