Making our democracy work : a judge's view /
Breyer, Stephen G., 1938-
Making our democracy work : a judge's view / Stephen Breyer. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. - xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Judicial review : the democratic anomaly -- Establishing judicial review : Marbury v. Madison -- The Cherokees -- Dred Scott -- Little Rock -- A present-day example -- The basic approach -- Congress, statutes, and purposes -- The executive branch, administrative action, and comparative expertise -- The states and federalism : decentralization and subsidiarity -- Other federal courts : specialization -- Past court decisions : stability -- Individual liberty : permanent values and proportionality -- The President, national security, and accountability : Korematsu -- Presidential power : GuantaÌnamo and accountability.
Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well.--
9780307269911 9780307390837 0307269914
2010016839
Judicial review--United States.
Judicial review--History.--United States
Political questions and judicial power--United States.
Separation of powers--United States.
KF4575 / .B738 2010
347.73/12
Making our democracy work : a judge's view / Stephen Breyer. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. - xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Judicial review : the democratic anomaly -- Establishing judicial review : Marbury v. Madison -- The Cherokees -- Dred Scott -- Little Rock -- A present-day example -- The basic approach -- Congress, statutes, and purposes -- The executive branch, administrative action, and comparative expertise -- The states and federalism : decentralization and subsidiarity -- Other federal courts : specialization -- Past court decisions : stability -- Individual liberty : permanent values and proportionality -- The President, national security, and accountability : Korematsu -- Presidential power : GuantaÌnamo and accountability.
Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well.--
9780307269911 9780307390837 0307269914
2010016839
Judicial review--United States.
Judicial review--History.--United States
Political questions and judicial power--United States.
Separation of powers--United States.
KF4575 / .B738 2010
347.73/12