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The least dangerous branch : the Supreme Court at the bar of politics / Alexander M. Bickel ; with a new foreward by Harry H. Wellington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, �1986.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585359741
  • 9780585359748
  • 9780300173338
  • 0300173334
  • 0300032668
  • 9780300032666
  • 0300032994
  • 9780300032994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Least dangerous branch.DDC classification:
  • 347.73/26 347.30735 19
LOC classification:
  • KF8742 .B5 1986eb
Other classification:
  • 86.54
  • PL 734
  • PU 5460
  • KL221.G1
  • L 978.
  • 86.54.
  • PL 734.
  • PU 5460.
  • L 978
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index.

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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.

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