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In the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court has undergone a crisis of legitimacy--engendered by its preoccupation with "fundamental rights." This book examines the controversy surrounding the conventional wisdom that the Court is the guardian of, as well as the final authoriy on, the Constitution and the ultimate defender of our liberties.
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At the time of the framing and ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton asserted with assurance that the judges of the Supreme Court were to be the "faithful guardians of the Constitution." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legislative tyranny, ordinary court system, legal aristocracy, modern judicial review, grand jury charge, living constitution, national judiciary, judicial supremacy, political charge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Dred Scott, Fourteenth Amendment, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Constitutional Convention, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, Dartmouth College, House of Representatives, Marshall Court, Nature's God, Government Act, Justice Chase, World War, Board of Education, Chief Justice Jay, Gouverneur Morris, Horace Mann, James Iredell, John Dewey, New York, Ralph Lerner, Charles Warren New!
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At the time of the framing and ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton asserted with assurance that the judges of the Supreme Court were to be the "faithful guardians of the Constitution." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legislative tyranny, ordinary court system, legal aristocracy, modern judicial review, grand jury charge, living constitution, national judiciary, judicial supremacy, political charge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Dred Scott, Fourteenth Amendment, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Constitutional Convention, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, Dartmouth College, House of Representatives, Marshall Court, Nature's God, Government Act, Justice Chase, World War, Board of Education, Chief Justice Jay, Gouverneur Morris, Horace Mann, James Iredell, John Dewey, New York, Ralph Lerner, Charles Warren New!
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- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on 4 pages
- Records of the Federal Convention by Max Farrand in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- American Constitutional Law by Louis Fisher in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Compilation Of The Messages And Papers Of The Presidents by James D. Richardson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy Basler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- American Constitutionalism by Stephen M. Griffin on 5 pages
- Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa's Political Reconstruction (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) by Heinz Klug in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Constitutional Change in the United States: A Comparative Study of the Role of Constitutional Amendments, Judicial Interpretations, and Legislative and Executive Actions by John R. Vile on page 122, and Back Matter
- South Africa's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy: CAN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION HELP? by Robert A. Licht in Front Matter, and page 252
- South Africa's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy: CAN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION HELP? by Robert A. Licht in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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