Raw judicial power?

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An analysis of the modern Supreme Court which takes full account of both its legal and political aspects. The book has an empirical bias, and the bulk of it analyzes the Court's decisions in the major policy areas, namely abortion, capital punishment, racial and sexual equality.

Description

Published here with a new chapter covering judgements from 1993 to 1995, Raw judicial power? is established as the definitive analysis of the powerful forces shaping the United States Supreme Court today. Robert J. McKeever analyses the approach of the Court to the most pressing contemporary social issues, such as capital punishment, abortion, race and affirmative action, gender equality and religion, sex and politics. He shows how social policy initiatives in the US. Have often come from the judicial rather than the legislative branch of government, leading to charges that the Supreme Court has been exercising 'raw judicial power'. He examines the policy decisions the Court has made, and argues that the Court has increasingly jettisoned traditional notions of constitutional interpretation in order to tackle the conflicts in contemporary American society. Students of American politics, constitutional law and social policy will all. Find this book invaluable.

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Other Editions

• Raw judicial power?: the Supreme Court and American societyManchester University Press1995-01-01
• Raw judicial power?Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press1993-01-01