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Author Bickel, Alexander M

Title The least dangerous branch : the Supreme Court at the bar of politics / Alexander M. Bickel ; with a new foreward by Harry H. Wellington
Edition 2nd ed
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1986

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages)
Contents Establishment and general justification of judicial review : Marbury v. Madison ; The moral approval of the lines: history ; The counter-majoritarian difficulty ; The moral approval of the lines: principle ; The mystic function -- The premise of distrust and rules of limitation : The rule of the clear mistake ; The rule of the successful operation of the venture at hand ; The rule of the neutral principles ; The Lincolnian tension -- The infirm glory of the positive hour : Adjectival simplicities and the neo-realists, nihilists, et al. ; Of activism, absolutes, attitudes, and the plain words of the constitution ; The wonder of the past- and its tyranny -- The passive virtues : The vivid metaphors of jurisdiction-and their sense ; The power to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given ; Restraint: prior and judicial ; Ripeness: a colloquy on birth control ; Political responsibility and congressional investigations ; Political responsibility and security dismissals ; The well-tempered case, the fielder's choice, and the uses of procedure and construction ; The political question and the resources of rhetoric -- Neither force nor will : The relativity of virtue ; The mysteries of motive ; The mirage of equal protection ; The square corners of the commerce clause and of procedural due process ; The judgment of this court -- The Supreme Court at the bar of politics : Composing for the anthologies ; All deliberate speed ; Political warfare and the uses of decisions of courts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index
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Subject United States. Supreme Court.
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
USA Supreme Court gnd
Subject Political questions and judicial power -- United States
LAW -- Government -- Federal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Legal Services.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Judicial Branch.
Political questions and judicial power
Rechtspolitik
Supreme Court (VS)
Toetsingsrecht.
Poder judiciário -- Estados unidos.
Tribunal supremo -- Estados unidos.
Direito constitucional -- Estados unidos.
Høyesterett.
United States
USA.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585359741
9780585359748
9780300173338
0300173334
0300032668
9780300032666
0300032994
9780300032994