In defense of a political court

In defense of a political court / Terri Jennings Peretti.

"Can the Supreme Court be free of politics? Do we want it to be? Normative constitutional theory has long concerned itself with the legitimate scope and limits of judicial review. Too often, theorists seek to resolve that issue by eliminating politics from constitutional decisionmaking. In cont...

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Main Author: Peretti, Terri Jennings, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Judicial review > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
Constitutional law
Judicial review
Political questions and judicial power
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. The Failure of Contemporary Constitutional Theory. 1. Conventional Constitutional Theory: The Neutralist Approach. 2. Constitutional Indeterminacy and Judicial Subjectivity: Critical Legal Studies. 3. The Skeptics and the Idea of Provisional Review
  • pt. II. In Defense of a Political Court. 4. The Virtues of Political Motive in Constitutional Decisionmaking: Political Representation. 5. The Virtues of Political Motive in Constitutional Decisionmaking: A Constrained and Consensus-Seeking Court. 6. A Political Court and the "Crisis of Legitimacy" 7. Democratic Theory Revisited. 8. Whither the Court and Constitution?

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