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<p><P>A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.<P>For Justice Breyer, the Constitution&#8217;s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls &#8220;active liberty&#8221;&#58; citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means recognizing the changing needs and demands of the populace. Indeed, the Constitution&#8217;s lasting brilliance is that its principles may be adapted to cope with unanticipated situations, and Breyer makes a powerful case against treating it as a static guide intended for a world that is dead and gone. Using contemporary examples from federalism to privacy to affirmative action, this is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate over the role and power of our courts.</p> <h3>KLIATT</h3> <p>We live in an era when conservatives have gotten the most recent appointments to the Supreme Court, and when the most prominent public speakers and leaders within that court have generally espoused a judicial philosophy of deferring to the executive branch and some version

Who reads Active liberty : interpreting our democratic Constitution?

Author

Stephen G. Breyer

Publisher

Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307274946

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

3.45 / 5 (496 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14