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The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism
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The most activist Supreme Court in history: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism by Thomas M. Keck as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of the United States Supreme Court.Abstract:
The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism. By Thomas M. Keck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 370p. $65.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. The title of this work presents its thesis at the macrolevel, but it is with limited support that the author claims that the current Supreme Court is the “most activist.” The core argument of the book is actually presented in the last chapter in clear fashion. There, the author explicitly refers to the Court as the O'Connor Court since he determines that it is largely the blend of political conservatism and judicial moderation, long displayed by Sandra Day O'Connor, that encapsulates the modern Court. So the thesis is no more than stated as something of a straw man at the outset. Thomas Keck “reveals” that the political ideology (liberal/conservative) dimension of justices is not identical to the judicial activism/restraint dimension of their judicial perspectives. These are and always have been two separate dimensions, even if they may not be orthogonal. It is not clear why this is the first major point of the discussion.read more
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“Interpose Your Friendly Hand”: Political Supports for the Exercise of Judicial Review by the United States Supreme Court
TL;DR: In this paper, an "overcoming obstructions" account of why judicial review might be supported by existing power holders is presented. But it is not clear why current officeholders might tolerate an activist judiciary.
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TL;DR: The authors evaluates the widespread scholarly claim that the courtroom victories of the LGBT rights movement have invariably provoked a counterproductive political backlash and argues that those victories have indeed provoked conservative counter-mobilization, but that has not been their only or even their most prominent effect.
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TL;DR: In this paper, interdisciplinary essays on the ethical issues which encompassed the Nuremberg trials and Code of Nuremburg have been collated from researchers in fields such as medicine, law, and ethics.
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Ironies of State Building: A Comparative Perspective on the American State
Desmond King,Robert C. Lieberman +1 more
TL;DR: A review of new directions in the American and comparative literatures on the state reveals important intellectual trends that parallel each other quite closely as mentioned in this paper, and provides insights for comparative studies, too, for instance in respect to the relationship between the state and welfare policy across nations.
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