A doubtful and perilous experiment
Subtitle: advisory opinions, state constitutions, and judicial supremacy
By: Mel A. Topf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780199756766
Subjects: States; Judicial review; Advisory opinions; Constitutional law
Description: The story of attempts to defend advisory authority, including several attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution to require the Supreme Court to issues them. It tells the story also of the uneasy relation between advisory opinions and judicial review as well as the expansion of judicial power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: This peculiar obligation : the problem of state supreme courts as advisors; title: Danger of grave abuses : attacks on the legitimacy of advisory opinions; title: To create a power to refuse : the rise of a jurisprudence of advisory opinions; title: Useful instrument of government : defending advisory opinions; title: An offer that can't be refused : judicial review and the failed attempts; title: Advisory opinions and judicial supremacy : constitutionalism, a politicized judiciary, and the eclipse of civic debate.