An entrenched legacy : how the New Deal constitutional revolution continues to shape the role of the Supreme Court
"[Book title] 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, [author] 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"--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2008
192 pages ; 23 cm
9780271032801, 0271032804
137222794
The New Deal constitutional revolution
At the heart of the revolution : the Constitution's structural provisions
How the administrative state has boosted judicial power
The court's federalism revolution
A one-sided federalism revolution : ignoring the liberty side of federalism
Contradicting the federalism revolution : the court's nationalizing rights-jurisprudence
Conclusion : a stifling of the democratic process
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