LEADER 05044oam 22007934a 450 001 9910482013003321 005 20240829155159.0 010 $a0-7006-0905-9 035 $a(CKB)5590000000429733 035 $a(OCoLC)1227916112 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse95529 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88494 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000429733 100 $a20040806d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKeeping the People's Liberties$eLegislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights /$fJohn J. Dinan 210 $cUniversity Press of Kansas$d1998 210 1$aLawrence (Kan.) :$cUniversity Press of Kansas,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998. 215 $a1 online resource (XII-259 p.) 311 $a0-7006-3147-X 311 $a0-7006-3085-6 330 $aWhich 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. 606 $aPolitique et gouvernement$zE?tats-Unis$xE?tats$2ram 606 $aPouvoir legislatif$zE?tats-Unis$2ram 606 $aPouvoir judiciaire$zE?tats-Unis$2ram 606 $aDroits civils et politiques$zE?tats-Unis$2ram 606 $aPouvoir constituant$zE?tats-Unis$2ram 606 $aPolitics and government$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919741 606 $aLegislative power$xU.S. states$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00995821 606 $aJudicial power$xU.S. states$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00984702 606 $aConstituent power$xU.S. states$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00875752 606 $aCivil rights$xU.S. states$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00862695 606 $aCivil rights$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00862627 606 $aConstituent power$zUnited States$xStates 606 $aLegislative power$zUnited States$xStates 606 $aJudicial power$zUnited States$xStates 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States$xStates 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$2fast 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 610 $aLegal history 615 0$aPolitique et gouvernement$xE?tats. 615 0$aPouvoir legislatif 615 0$aPouvoir judiciaire 615 0$aDroits civils et politiques 615 0$aPouvoir constituant 615 0$aPolitics and government. 615 0$aLegislative power$xU.S. states. 615 0$aJudicial power$xU.S. states. 615 0$aConstituent power$xU.S. states. 615 0$aCivil rights$xU.S. states. 615 0$aCivil rights. 615 0$aConstituent power$xStates. 615 0$aLegislative power$xStates. 615 0$aJudicial power$xStates. 615 0$aCivil rights$xStates. 615 0$aCivil rights 700 $aDinan$b John J.$4aut$01024659 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910482013003321 996 $aKeeping the People's Liberties$92435491 997 $aUNINA