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Making sense of the constitution : a primer on the Supreme Court and its struggle to apply our fundamental law / Walter M. Frank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Walter M., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 312 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Some foundational ideas
- The constitution and its amendments : an overview
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- The Supreme Court in the constitutional structure
- What the court does : the stuff of judicial review
- The federal judicial system
- Life on the court
- The litigation process : from complaint to Supreme Court opinion
- The toolbox for judicial decision making
- Crafting a constitution
- The court in action : contemporary constitutional controversies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809330836
- 0809330830
- 9780809330843
- 0809330849
- OCLC:
- 733937390
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