Making sense of the constitution : a primer on the Supreme Court and its struggle to apply our fundamental law

Format

Book

Description

xi, 312 p. ; 23 cm.

Published

Carbondale, Ill. :Southern Illinois University Press,c2012.

ISBN(s)

9780809330836 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0809330830 (pbk. : alk. paper), 9780809330843 (ebook), 0809330849 (ebook),

Contents

• Some foundational ideas
• The constitution and its amendments : an overview
• The Fourteenth Amendment
• The Supreme Court in the constitutional structure
• What the court does : the stuff of judicial review
• The federal judicial system
• Life on the court
• The litigation process : from complaint to Supreme Court opinion
• The toolbox for judicial decision making
• Crafting a constitution
• The court in action : contemporary constitutional controversies

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-283) and index.

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