LEADER 04098nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910451159003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-56111-4 010 $a9786610561117 010 $a0-19-535841-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000407719 035 $a(EBL)431143 035 $a(OCoLC)435911859 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000300897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260137 035 $a(PQKB)10657180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000339525 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12084077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339525 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364706 035 $a(PQKB)10707471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431143 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279346 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL56111 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000407719 100 $a19931022d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJudicial power and American character$b[electronic resource] $ecensoring ourselves in an anxious age /$fRobert F. Nagel 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-510662-8 311 $a0-19-508901-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 1. Introduction: The Court as Cultural Barometer; 2. Watching Ourselves: The Thomas Hearings and National Character; Inequality as Equality; Offensiveness as Virtue; Careerism and Sexual Equality; Careerism and Responsibility; Moralism and Opportunism; 3. Shaping Law: Elitism and Democracy in the Bork Hearings; Bork against the Mainstream; Bork as the Mainstream; Meeting the Enemy; 4. Marching on Constitution Avenue: Public Protest and the Court; Judges as Politicians; Marching and Advocacy; Legalism, Realism, and Edwin Meese's Heresy 327 $a5. Speaking before All Others: Interpretation as the Suppression of DisagreementThe Rule of Law; Legal Traditions and Constitutional Rights; Political Resistance and the Expansion of Rights; 6. Pursuing Visions: Interpretation as Moral Evasion; Sexual Speech and Moral Climate; Flag Burning and Political Ethos; Boundlessness and Adjudication; 7. Correcting the Political: Interpretation as Mind Control; Regulating Sexist Speech; The Court and Consciousness Raising; Mind Control and Censorship; 8. Arguing with Enemies: Interpretation as Invective; Name-Calling in the Courts 327 $aJudicial Restraint and Moral HeroismThe Ideal of Moderation in a Divided Society; Restraint and the Judicial Machine; 9. Censoring Ourselves; Principle Ascendant; Principle,""Progress,"" and the Tradition of the Family; Principle as Suppression; Principle and Cultural Decline; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aThis book examines judicial power as an integral part of our increasingly anxious and intolerant society. Nagel shows how constitutional politics embodies cultural tendencies toward moral evasiveness, privatization, and opportunism, and that judicial decisions often censor important beliefs and traditions. Ranging widely over topics such as Clarence Thomas' confirmation, abortion, flag-burning, and gay rights, the analysis crosses conventional political and philosophical lines to conclude that the real protection for legal values lies in robust politics. 606 $aConstitutional law$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aJudicial power$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConstitutional law$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aJudicial power 676 $a347.73/12 676 $a347.30712 700 $aNagel$b Robert F$0966505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451159003321 996 $aJudicial power and American character$92195778 997 $aUNINA