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A citizen's guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court : constitutional conflict in American politics / Morgan Marietta.
Van Pelt Library KF4550.Z9 M275 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marietta, Morgan.
- Series:
- Citizen guides to politics and public affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- United States.
- Judicial review--United States.
- Judicial review.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the constitution and Bong Hits for Jjesus
- The core disagreement : how should we read the Constitution?
- Judicial review : is it legitimate and expansive, or questionable and limited?
- Rights : are they individual or collective?
- Federalism : must we have one national standard?
- Liberty : does the Constitution invoke ordered liberty or pure liberty?
- Religion : is the constitution a religious or secular document?
- Transcendence : do transcendent principles exist in the Constitution?
- Social facts : should the Court move ahead of society or wait for social change?
- Precedent : should we follow or break from the history of the Court?
- Completeness : what else do we need to read?
- Textualism
- Common law constitutionalism
- Originalism
- Living constitutionalism
- Comparing schools of interpretation
- Points of conflict & schools of thought in a landmark case : Roe v. Wade
- Contemporary landmark cases : from Phelps to Obamacare
- Conclusion : reading the Constitution for ourselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415843799
- 0415843790
- 9780415843812
- 0415843812
- OCLC:
- 825648181
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