Author: Kermit L. Hall
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815334248
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Robert E. Riggs
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595772933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the "least dangerous" branch of government. He was right then but wrong today. Since Hamilton's time the Supreme Court has become a cardinal example of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is not a corruption of bribes, or even of bad intentions, but of taking upon itself the right to alter the Constitution whenever past principles offend present preferences of five or more Justices. Corrupted by Power shows how the Constitution is repeatedly changed to mean whatever the Supreme Court wants it to mean. Precedent is followed only when past decisions support current opinions. Otherwise precedents are overruled, misrepresented or ignored. A conspicuous example is the judicial manufacture of new First Amendment rights, including rights to advocate criminal behavior, publish degrading sex and extreme violence, and advertise vice. Can the Constitution be rescued? Discover what can be done.

Author: William Lasser
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469632462
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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Lasser examines in detail four periods during which the Court was widely charged with overstepping its constitutional power: the late 1850s, with the Dred Scott case and its aftermath; the Reconstruction era; the New Deal era; and the years of the Warren and Burger Courts after 1954. His thorough analysis of the most controversial decisions convincingly demonstrates that the Court has much more power to withstand political reprisal than is commonly assumed. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author: Charles Evans Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Examines the Supreme Court of the United States from its foundation, organization, and methods, as a distinctly American concept and function.

Author: Edwin Countryman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Kermit L. Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Available as a single volume or part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society.

Author: Tom S. Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108530001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of law and uses the model to document the historical development of constitutional law. Using sophisticated statistical methods and historical analysis of court decisions, the author documents how social and political forces shape the path of law. Spanning the history of constitutional law since Reconstruction, this book illustrates the way in which the law evolves with American life and argues that a social-scientific approach to the history of law illuminates connections across disparate areas of the law, connected by the social context in which the Constitution has been interpreted.

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

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Author: Charles Warren
Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Author: Matthew E. K. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139495399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Few institutions in the world are credited with initiating and confounding political change on the scale of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is uniquely positioned to enhance or inhibit political reform, enshrine or dismantle social inequalities, and expand or suppress individual rights. Yet despite claims of victory from judicial activists and complaints of undemocratic lawmaking from the Court's critics, numerous studies of the Court assert that it wields little real power. This book examines the nature of Supreme Court power by identifying conditions under which the Court is successful at altering the behavior of state and private actors. Employing a series of longitudinal studies that use quantitative measures of behavior outcomes across a wide range of issue areas, it develops and supports a new theory of Supreme Court power.