Congress V The Supreme Court

Author : Raoul Berger
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress V. the Supreme Court written by Raoul Berger and published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated text examines the legitimacy of judicial review.

Author : William B. Glidden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440835209
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court versus Congress written by William B. Glidden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and focused review of all of the Supreme Court's overturns of Congress on constitutional grounds from 1789 to the present suited to college-level political science and constitutional law courses as well as law school students. The always-controversial practice of judicial review of Congress is not prescribed in the Constitution, but is arguably a valid way to protect the rights of individuals or guard against unfair rule by the majority. This book offers a historical review and indictment of the Supreme Court's overruling of Congress, ultimately taking a position that this has been more detrimental than beneficial to the democratic process in the United States, and that in the aggregate rights of individuals and minorities would have been better served if the relevant laws of Congress had been enforced rather than struck down by the Court. Written by an author who is a historian and a lawyer, the book covers all Supreme Court overrides of Congress through 2014, including major historical turning points in Supreme Court legislation and such recent and relevant topics as the Affordable Care Act, limits on contributions to political candidates and campaigns from wealthy individuals, and the Defense of Marriage Act. The discussions of specific cases are made in relevant context and focus on "big picture" themes and concepts without skipping key details, making this a useful volume for law and university level students while also being accessible to general readers.

Author : Egbert Ray Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress Or the Supreme Court; which Shall Rule America? written by Egbert Ray Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pat Robertson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418576107
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courting Disaster written by Pat Robertson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-11-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Pat Robertson examines the threat of "no judicial limits" to the Christian heritage of our country, and how it has steadily eroded the power of both representative government and democracy itself.

Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070061799X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending Congress and the Constitution written by Louis Fisher and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of four decades of research and service on behalf of Congress, Louis Fisher's latest work is a fitting capstone to a remarkable career as scholar and writer and presents his most articulate, passionate, and persuasive defense yet of Congress as an institution. Our nation's leading authority on the separation of powers, Fisher offers a lucid primer on our nation's government and its executive, legislative, and judicial branches while vigorously advocating a robust reassertion of Congress's rightful role within that system. Drawing on a wide range of legislation, Supreme Court rulings, and presidential decisions, Fisher illuminates the contentious contest among the three major branches for power and control of government, presents a panorama of American history, and touches on issues as wide-ranging as federalism, religious freedom, and national security policy. Fisher is especially critical of the stereotypical view of the Supreme Court's decisions as possessing a kind of effectiveness and absolute finality that transcends the efforts and powers of Congress. Indeed, he argues that Congress, as much or more than the judiciary, has had a major positive impact on protecting individual rights in this country, while the judiciary has fallen short in such areas as child labor regulation and compulsory flag salute-or has attempted to settle a constitutional issue only to have it fester for years, breeding anger and resentment, until the political process forces the courts rethink their views. He highlights legislative accomplishments in many areas, often in the face of judicial opposition and obstruction, but also chides Congress for not protecting its key prerogatives over the power of the purse and going to war. In yielding to other branches, Fishers warns, lawmakers fail to represent their constituents and cripple the very system of checks and balances the Framers counted on to limit the destructive capacity of government. His book offers a wealth of forceful insights and provides an important reminder of and guide to how our government should really work.

Author : Anna Harvey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300199198
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mere Machine written by Anna Harvey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts or myths? In this groundbreaking new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings. Analyzing cross-national evidence, Harvey also finds that the rights protections we enjoy in the United States appear to be largely due to the fact that we do not have an independent Supreme Court. In fact, we would likely have even greater protections for political and economic rights were we to prohibit our federal courts from exercising judicial review altogether. Harvey’s findings suggest that constitutional designers would be wise to heed Thomas Jefferson’s advice to “let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.&rdquo

Author : Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book List of Speeches, Etc., on the United States Supreme Court Issue as Printed in the Congressional Record written by Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Waltman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137300647
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty written by J. Waltman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the case City of Boerne v. Flores, the Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Waltman offers the first book-length analysis of the act to show how this case contributes to an intense legal debate still ongoing today: Can and should the Supreme Court be the exclusive interpreter of the Constitution?

Author : J. Mitchell Pickerill
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385678
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Deliberation in Congress written by J. Mitchell Pickerill and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of them, Pickerill argues that judicial review—or the possibility of it—encourages Congressional attention to constitutional issues. Revealing critical aspects of how laws are made, revised, and refined within the separated system of government of the United States, he makes an important contribution to “constitutionalism outside the courts” debates. Pickerill combines legislative histories, extensive empirical findings, and interviews with current and former members of Congress, congressional staff, and others. He examines data related to all of the federal legislation struck down by the Supreme Court from the beginning of the Warren Court in 1953 through the 1996–97 term of the Rehnquist Court. By looking at the legislative histories of Congressional acts that invoked the Commerce Clause and presented Tenth Amendment conflicts—such as the Child Labor Act (1916), the Civil Rights Act (1965), the Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990), and the Brady Bill (1994)—Pickerill illuminates how Congressional deliberation over newly proposed legislation is shaped by the possibility of judicial review. The Court’s invalidation of the Gun-Free School Zones Act in its 1995 ruling United States v. Lopez signaled an increased judicial activism regarding issues of federalism. Pickerill examines that case and compares congressional debate over constitutional issues in key pieces of legislation that preceded and followed it: the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1997. He shows that Congressional attention to federalism increased in the 1990s along with the Court’s greater scrutiny.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: