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[Stephen Breyer] ✓ Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. And it further establishes Justice Breyer as one of the Court’s greatest intellectuals and a leading legal voice of our time.. He reminds us that at various moments in our history, the Court’s decisions were disobeyed or ignored. He uses these cases to show how the Court can promote workable government by respecting the roles of other constitutional actors without compromising constitutional
| Title | : | Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307269914 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. And it further establishes Justice Breyer as one of the Court’s greatest intellectuals and a leading legal voice of our time.. He reminds us that at various moments in our history, the Court’s decisions were disobeyed or ignored. He uses these cases to show how the Court can promote workable government by respecting the roles of other constitutional actors without compromising constitutional principles.Making Our Democracy Work is a tour de force of history and philosophy, offering an original approach to interpreting the Constitution that judges, lawyers, and scholars will look to for many years to come. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly unpopular? What must the Court do to maintain the public’s faith? How can the Court help make our democracy work? These are the questions that Justice Stephen Breyer tackles in this groundbreaking book.Today we assume that when the Court rules, the public will obey. And through investigations of past cases, concerning the Cherokee Indians, slavery, and Brown v. The Court, he believes, must also respect the roles that other actors—such as the president, Congress, administrative agencies, and the states—play in our democracy, and he
the Kansas Board of Education, President Eisenhower used the Army to back up Court decisions against segregated education. Breyer tells the story of President Jackson's grudging acceptance of a Court decision protecting the treaty rights of the Cherokee nation, only to seize their land using Federal troops. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. And in Brown vs. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Breyer discusses recent Court decisions in favor of rights for Guantanamo detainees and examines the limitations of a President's power as Commander-in-Chief, even in wartime, contrasting this to the failure of the Court, Congress, and President Roosevelt ov
Further Views on the Proper Role for the Supreme Court Ronald H. Clark This book is a continuation of the dialogue Justice Breyer began in his previous work "Active Liberty." There, he argued that the Court should implement greater participation of citizens in their government. Although he touched at points upon the originalist/literalist approach to interpretation favored by Just. G. Scholl said Enjoyable and insightful. I liked this book for many reasons, but two stand out. First, it is an interesting contextualization of the path our country has taken starting out from the basic "idea" of the role of the Supreme Court in the American political system as envisioned by the Founders, to the current manifestation of that role, re. Five Stars Amazon Customer a
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