Terms of engagement
Subtitle: how our courts should enforce the Constitution's promise of limited government
By: Clark M. Neily III
Edition: First American edition
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781594036965; 9781594036972
Subjects: Political questions and judicial power
Description: Argues that the Supreme Court has stopped upholding the ideal of limited government as percieved in the Constitution, thereby not protecting the majority of American citizens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional law for ordinary people; title: How courts protect rights they care about; title: The rationalize-a-basis test; title: A watered-down constitution; title: Liberty slaughtered; title: Why do judges abdicate?; title: The judicial activism bogeyman; title: Real judging in all constitutional cases; title: From abdication to engagement.