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The judicial branch / Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire, editors.
- Title
- The judicial branch / Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xxviii. 579 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Presents a collection of essays that provide an examination of the judicial branch of the American government, including its history, its imapct, and its future.
- Series Statement
- Institutions of American democracy series
- Uniform Title
- Institutions of American democracy series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The historical foundations of the American judiciary / William E. Nelson -- Judges and democracy : the changing role of the United States Supreme Court / Cass R. Sunstein -- Judicial independence and the majoritarian difficulty / Kermit L. Hall -- The judiciary and the separation of powers / Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. -- Judicial review and interpretation : have the courts become sovereign when interpreting the constitution? / Keith E. Whittington -- Paths to the bench : selecting Supreme Court justices in a "juristocratic" world / Joel B. Grossman -- Is judicial federalism essential to democracy? : state courts in the federal system / Paul Brace and Melinda Gann Hall -- American courts and democracy : a comparative perspective / Donald P. Kommers -- Courts in American popular culture / Lynn Mather -- What Americans know about the courts and why it matters / Gregory A. Caldeira and Kevin T. McGuire -- The impact of courts on American life / Gerald N. Rosenberg -- Judicial activism and American democracy / Doris Marie Provine -- Courts and the rights revolution / Charles R. Epp -- Discrimination through direct democracy : the role of the judiciary in the pursuit of equality / Sue Davis -- From republic to democracy : the judiciary and the political process / Mark A. Graber -- Courts and the definition of defendants' rights / David A. Yalof -- Public education, democratic life, and the American courts / Douglas S. Reed -- The future of the judicial branch : courts and democracy in the twenty-first century / Lawrence Baum -- Property rights and democracy in the American constitutional order / James W. Ely, Jr.
- ISBN
- 9780195171723 (alk. paper)
- 0195171721 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005017853
- OCLC
- 60791492
- SCSB-9948788
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library