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6) The Bill of Rights, the courts & the law: the landmark cases cases that have shaped American society
Publisher
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. He exposes the failures of the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and resist its abuse, and offers practical prescriptions for reform"--
9) Justice!
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A simple, fact-filled introduction for the smallest citizen on the judicial branch of the government"--
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urgently, how to cope with the dizzying pace of technological advance that makes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction draws on the Court's history and its written and unwritten rules to show how it operates in the twenty-first century. Today's Supreme Court, housed in a majestic building on Capitol Hill, bears little resemblance to the institution launched by the Framers of the Constitution and was originally seen as the weakest of the three branches of government. Over the next 200 years, the Court put the independence...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices' partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court's root problem. Overconfidence is. Conservative and liberal justices alike have adopted a tone of uncompromising certainty in their ability to solve society's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, that make up the American judicial system. Jargon free and aimed at a general reader, it explains the where, when, and who of American courts. It also makes clear the how and why behind the law as it affects everyday people. It is, in a word, a starting place to understanding the third branch of American government at both the state...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly asked what kind of government the founders would propose. He replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." In this book, Justice Neil Gorsuch shares personal reflections, speeches, and essays that focus on the remarkable gift the framers left us in the Constitution. Justice Gorsuch draws on his thirty-year career as a lawyer, teacher, judge, and justice to explore essential aspects...
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