Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (New Forum Books Book 52) on EtoBox?

That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (New Forum Books Book 52) by Wolfe, Christopher (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (New Forum Books Book 52) about?

The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? Or should it confine itself to enforcing specific constitutional provisions, leaving other issues (even those of rights) to the democratic process? __That Eminent Tribunal__ brings together a distinguished group of legal scholars and political scientists who argue that the Court's power has exceeded its appropriate bounds, and that sound republican principles require greater limits on that power. They reach this conclusion by an interesting variety of paths, and despite varied political convictions. Some of the essays debate the explicit claims to constitutional authority laid out by the Supreme Court itself in __Planned Parenthood v. Casey__ and similar cases, and others focus on the defenses of judicial authority found commonly in legal scholarship (e.g., the allegedly superior moral reasoning of judges, or judges' supposed track record of superior political decision making). The authors find these arguments wanting and contend that the principles of republicanism and t

Who reads That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (New Forum Books Book 52)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Wolfe, Christopher (editor)
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780691116686
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law, Political Science

Other editions & translations

More by Wolfe, Christopher (editor)

Browse all works by Wolfe, Christopher (editor)

Similar books