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Narrowing the Nation´s Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States
Jr. John T. Noonan
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Paperback. Describes how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; LAFC; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 40. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
"Narrowing the Nation's Power" is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea that the sovereign is 'a superior being.' Promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status, the current Supreme Court has used it to shield the states from damages for age discrimination, disability discrimination, and the violation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and fair labor standards. Not ... Read more
"Narrowing the Nation's Power" is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea that the sovereign is 'a superior being.' Promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status, the current Supreme Court has used it to shield the states from damages for age discrimination, disability discrimination, and the violation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and fair labor standards. Not ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520240681
SKU
KTG0002824
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About Jr. John T. Noonan
John T. Noonan, Jr. is Robbins Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books, including Bribes (1987), Persons and Masks of the Law (2002), and The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998), which was a New York Times Notable Book. He is currently the holder ... Read more
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