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22%OFFPatrick M. Garry - An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court - 9780271032818 - V9780271032818
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An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court

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Description for An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA; LND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.

An Entrenched Legacy takes a fresh look at the role of the Supreme Court in our modern constitutional system. Although criticisms of judicial power today often attribute its rise to the activism of justices seeking to advance particular political ideologies, Patrick Garry argues instead that the Supreme Court’s power has grown mainly because of certain constitutional decisions during the New Deal era that initially seemed to portend a lessening of the Court’s power.

When the Court retreated from enforcing separation of powers and federalism as the twin structural protections for individual liberty in the face of FDR’s New Deal agenda, ... Read more

During the Rehnquist era, the Court tried to reinvigorate the constitutional doctrine of federalism by strengthening certain powers of the states. But, according to Garry, this effort only went halfway toward a true revival of federalism, since the Court continued to rely on judicially enforced individual rights for the protection of liberty. A more comprehensive reform would require a return to the earlier reliance on both federalism and separation of powers as structural devices for protecting liberty. Such reform, as Garry notes, would also help revitalize the role of legislatures in our democratic system.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271032818
SKU
V9780271032818
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About Patrick M. Garry
Patrick M. Garry is Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota.

Reviews for An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court
“This is a clear and well-informed addition to the line of strong critiques of the modern practice of judicial review.” —Robert F. Nagel, University of Colorado “Patrick Garry’s new book is a brilliant, incisive, and comprehensive account of sweeping—and very troubling—changes in the fundamental structural dimensions of our constitutional practices over the last century. Garry provides illuminating analyses of ... Read more

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