That Eminent Tribunal : : Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution / / ed. by Christopher Wolfe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arkes, Hadley,; Bradley, Gerard V.,; Liebmann, George W.,; McConnell, Michael W.,; Nagel, Robert F.,; Nowlin, Jack Wade,; Smith, Steven D.,; Waldron, Jeremy,; Whittington, Keith E.,; Wolfe, Christopher,; Zuckert, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Wolfe, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: New Forum Books ; 52
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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 o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Is the Constitution Whatever the Winners Say It Is?
• Chapter 2. Nationhood and Judicial Supremacy
• Chapter 3. "Casey at the Bat"-Taking Another Swing at Planned Parenthood v. Casey
• Chapter 4. Antijural Jurisprudence: The Vices of the Judges Enter a New Stage
• Chapter 5. Judicial Power and the Withering of Civil Society
• Chapter 6. The Academy, the Courts, and the Culture of Rationalism
• Chapter 7. Judicial Moral Expertise and Real-World Constraints on Judicial Moral Reasoning
• Chapter 8. Toward a More Balanced History of the Supreme Court
• Chapter 9. Judicial Review and Republican Government
• Chapter 10. The Casey Five versus the Federalism Five: Supreme Legislator or Prudent Umpire?
• Chapter 11. The Rehnquist Court and "Conservative Judicial Activism"
• Index