The court and the Constitution

by Archibald Cox

Paper Book, 1987

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Available

Call number

KF4550.C69 1987

Genres

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Description

Building a nation, from laissezfaire to the welfare state, constitutional adjudication as an instrument of reform.

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LibraryThing member dougwood57
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
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 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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Subjects

Constitutional history United States
Judicial review United States History

Language

English

Original publication date

1987

Physical description

viii, 434 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0395379334 / 9780395379332

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