A citizen's guide to the constitution and the Supreme Court : constitutional conflict in American politics /
Marietta, Morgan. ,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the constitution and Bong Hits for Jesus -- The core disagreement : how should we read the constitution? -- Judicial review : is it legitimate and expansive, or questionable and limited? -- Rights : are they individual or collective? -- Federalism : must we have one national standard? -- Liberty : does the constitution invoke ordered liberty or pure liberty? -- Religion : is the constitution a religious or secular document? -- Transcendence : do transcendent principles exist in the constitution? -- Social facts : should the Court move ahead of society or wait for social change? -- Precedent : should we follow or break from the history of the Court? -- Completeness : what else do we need to read? -- Textualism -- Common law constitutionalism -- Originalism -- Living constitutionalism -- Comparing schools of interpretation -- Points of conflict & schools of thought in a landmark case : Roe v. Wade -- Contemporary landmark cases : from Phelps to Obamacare -- Conclusion : reading the constitution for ourselves.
United States. Supreme Court.
Constitutional law
Judicial review