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Constitutional rights, moral controversy, and the Supreme Court / Michael J. Perry.
- Title
- Constitutional rights, moral controversy, and the Supreme Court / Michael J. Perry.
- Author
- Perry, Michael J.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- x, 254 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "If a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitution, it does not necessarily follow that the Court should rule that the law is unconstitutional. In cases in which it is argued that a law violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court must decide which of two importantly different questions it should address: (1) Is the challenged law unconstitutional? (2) Is the lawmakers' judgment that the challenged law is constitutional a reasonable judgment?"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- USA / Oberster Gerichtshof
- USA > Supreme Court
- Thayer, James Bradley, 1831-1902
- Abortion > Law and legislation > United States
- Same-sex marriage > United States
- Capital punishment > United States
- Political questions and judicial power > United States
- Civil rights > United States
- Constitutional law > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Human rights : from morality to constitutional law -- Constitutionally entrenched human rights, the Supreme Court, and Thayerian deference -- Capital punishment -- Same-sex unions -- Abortion -- Thayerian deference revisited.
- ISBN
- 9780521755955 (hbk.)
- 0521755956 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2008004208
- OCLC
- 191898132
- SCSB-10475000
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library