Constitutional Conscience
Subtitle: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780226677255
Subjects: Constitutional; Courts - Supreme Court; Law / Constitutional; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Judges; Judicial process; Justice, Administration of; United States
Description: "While many recent observers have accused American judges - especially Supreme Court justices - of being too driven by politics and ideology, others have argued that judges are justified in using their positions to advance personal views. Advocating a different approach - one that eschews ideology but still values personal perspective - H. Jefferson Powell makes a case for the centrality of individual conscience in constitutional decision making."--BOOK JACKET.