01140nas0 22003371i 450 99000578470020331620140113173143.0000578470USA01000578470(ALEPH)000578470USA0100057847020121127a19239999Km-y0itay50------baitaITafazz--||||Rivista d'Italia e d'Americarassegna mensile illustratadi vita, cultura ed economia americana e italianaA. 1, n. 1 (nov. 1923)- a. 6, n. 8/9 (ago.-set. 1928).RomaSoc. poligrafica La rapida1923-1928.volumiill.24 cmIl compl. del tit. variaImmigrazioneAmericaPeriodici304.873ITsalbcISBD990005784700203316Fondo CuomoXV.2.Per.60III, 1925, nn. 16, 21-24; IV, 1926, nn. 6, 10;SEVITTORIANA9020121127USA011633VITTORIANA9020121127USA011634PATRY9020140113USA011731Rivista d'Italia e d'America1081506UNISA06079oam 22009134a 450 991048201300332120250905110030.097807006090550700609059(CKB)5590000000429733(OCoLC)1227916112(MdBmJHUP)muse95529(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88494(Perlego)4556424(MiAaPQ)EBC32222802(Au-PeEL)EBL32222802(OCoLC)1531319418(oapen)doab88494(ODN)ODN0011151163(EXLCZ)99559000000042973320040806d1998 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKeeping the People's LibertiesLegislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights /John J. Dinan1st ed.University Press of Kansas1998Lawrence (Kan.) :University Press of Kansas,1998.©1998.1 online resource (XII-259 p.)9780700631476 070063147X 9780700630851 0700630856 Front Cover -- Halftitle -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Kansas Open Books Preface -- Preface -- 1. The Theory and Design of Republican Institutions -- 2. Republican Institutions and the Protection of Rights -- 3. Republican Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties -- 4. The Theory and Design of Populist Institutions -- 5. Populist Institutions and the Protection of Rights -- 6. Populist Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties -- 7. The Theory and Design of Judicialist Institutions -- 8. Judicialist Institutions and the Protection of Rights -- 9. Judicialist Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era.By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon—Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the midtwentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties.By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions.By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.Politique et gouvernementÉtats-UnisÉtatsramPouvoir legislatifÉtats-UnisramPouvoir judiciaireÉtats-UnisramDroits civils et politiquesÉtats-UnisramPouvoir constituantÉtats-UnisramPolitics and governmentfast(OCoLC)fst01919741Legislative powerU.S. statesfast(OCoLC)fst00995821Judicial powerU.S. statesfast(OCoLC)fst00984702Constituent powerU.S. statesfast(OCoLC)fst00875752Civil rightsU.S. statesfast(OCoLC)fst00862695Civil rightsfast(OCoLC)fst00862627Constituent powerUnited StatesStatesLegislative powerUnited StatesStatesJudicial powerUnited StatesStatesCivil rightsUnited StatesStatesCivil rightsUnited StatesUnited StatesfastUnited StatesPolitics and governmentPolitique et gouvernementÉtats.Pouvoir legislatifPouvoir judiciaireDroits civils et politiquesPouvoir constituantPolitics and government.Legislative powerU.S. states.Judicial powerU.S. states.Constituent powerU.S. states.Civil rightsU.S. states.Civil rights.Constituent powerStates.Legislative powerStates.Judicial powerStates.Civil rightsStates.Civil rightsDinan John Jaut1024659MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910482013003321Keeping the People's Liberties2435491UNINA