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The intelligible Constitution : the Supreme Court's obligation to maintain the Constitution as something we the people can understand / Joseph Goldstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, Joseph, 1923-2000.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- Judicial opinions--United States.
- Judicial opinions.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This monograph argues that the central obligation of the US Supreme Court is to address itself to the American people from whom it derives its constitutional authority. The author points out that the Court repeatedly fails to make its opinions clear, even to legal practitioners.
- Contents:
- Contents; A Foreword; Part I: WHY AN INTELLIGIBLE CONSTITUTION; Part II: OPINION STUDIES; Part III: CANONS OF COMPREHENSIBILITY; Appendix: The Constitution of the United States; Notes; Case Index; Name Index; Index
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Previously issued in print: 1992.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-194) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771951-1
- 1-280-52777-3
- 0-19-802373-1
- OCLC:
- 476013644
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