Raw judicial power?
Subtitle: the Supreme Court and American society
By: Robert J. McKeever.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court.; Constitutional law -- United States.; Judicial review -- United States.; Political questions and judicial power -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions.
Description: An analysis of the modern Supreme Court which takes full account of both its legal and political aspects. The book has an empirical bias, and the bulk of it analyzes the Court's decisions in the major policy areas, namely abortion, capital punishment, racial and sexual equality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.