David's hammer : the case for an activist judiciary / / Clint Bolick

• Autore: Bolick Clint
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Cato Institute, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.73/1
• Soggetto topico: Political questions and judicial power - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mrs. Swedenburg goes to court -- Judicial activism: everybody's favorite bogeyman -- The origins and importance of judicial review -- Judicial activism: the bad and the good -- The Rehnquist Court : a judicial counterrevolution fizzles out -- Model justice -- Economic liberty -- Private property rights -- School choice -- State constitutions : the beckoning frontier -- An activist judiciary, for all the right reasons.
• Sommario/riassunto: Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason-lawless courts are a threat to republican government. But challenging conventional wisdom, constitutional litigator Clint Bolick argues in David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. For better or worse, only a vigorous judiciary can enforce the limits on executive and legislative action, protect constitution-al rights, and tame unelected bureaucrats. David's Hammer reclaims for the judiciary its inten
• Titolo autorizzato: David's hammer
• ISBN: 9786611905279; 9781281905277; 1281905275; 9781933995304; 1933995300
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911004891503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II