Making sense of the constitution a primer on the Supreme Court and its struggle to apply our fundamental law /

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Autore principale: Frank, Walter M., 1945-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
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Sommario:
  • 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.