David's hammer : the case for an activist judiciary / Clint Bolick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolick, Clint.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Political questions and judicial power--United States.

Political questions and judicial power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason-lawless courts are a threat to republican government. But challenging conventional wisdom, constitutional litigator Clint Bolick argues in David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. For better or worse, only a vigorous judiciary can enforce the limits on executive and legislative action, protect constitution-al rights, and tame unelected bureaucrats. David's Hammer reclaims for the judiciary its inten

Contents:

Mrs. Swedenburg goes to court

Judicial activism: everybody's favorite bogeyman

The origins and importance of judicial review

Judicial activism: the bad and the good

The Rehnquist Court : a judicial counterrevolution fizzles out

Model justice

Economic liberty

Private property rights

School choice

State constitutions : the beckoning frontier

An activist judiciary, for all the right reasons.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611905279

9781281905277

1281905275

9781933995304

1933995300

OCLC:

318575312