The Supreme Court and Constitutional Theory, 1953-1993
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700606661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Breno Baía. Excelent
Senior Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University "A provocative 'revisionist' analysis of the Court and constitutional politics. Murphy, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University "At last a constitutional law scholar with the courage to respect constitutional and institutional forms as real political forces not reducible to political power, political processes, or economic and group forces operating through politics. This book is revisionism the other way-back toward a simple, unadorned reading of decisions and rationales."--Theodore Lowi, John L. Smith, author of Liberalism and American Constitutional Law"Kahn boldly challenges not only many of the prevailing interpretations of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence, but also the way that many scholars look at the Court."--Walter F. From the Back Cover "An impr
Ronald Kahn is professor of politics at Oberlin College. . His articles have appeared in journals such as the Stanford Law Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of Legal Education, Polity, and Studies in American Political Development and in books such as The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States and Judging the Constitution
His objective is nothing less than a wholesale revision of our understanding of the Supreme Court's pattern of behavior from the Warren era to the present". "Kahn's provocative book boldly challenges students of the modern Court to take constitutional theory seriously. -- American Political Science Review.