Court and the Constitution
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Book Overview
America's foremost professor of constitutional law celebrates the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution in a history of its interpretation, reviewing its evolution from framing to the present. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0395379334
ISBN13:9780395379332
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Length:434 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Solid and Readable Grounding in Constitutional Law
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Archibald Cox, Nixon's nemesis, explains the history of the Supreme Court and its consitutional interpretations. Read this book and discard simplisitic notions about liberal 'activist' judges. Perhaps the most activist judges in US history were the conservatives that frustrated Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. Was John Marshall an 'activist' when he asserted the right and duty of the Supreme Court to 'say what the law is' in Marbury v. Madison? That case established the rule of law as much as any other single act in Anglo-American legal history. Most lawyers probably need to read this book (I am one), but it is very accessible to the lay reader as well.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I read this book for a class on American Government; it is extremely interesting and well-written. I enjoyed it immensely.
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