Separation of powers in practice
By: Tom Campbell.
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Law and Politics
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Separation of powers -- United States.; Separation of powers -- United States -- Cases.
Genres: Cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Synopsis of the advantages of the separate branches of government; title: Rules of the legislative process; title: Statutory construction : the courts review the work of the legislature; title: Stare decisis : the self-imposed constraint by the judicial branch not shared by the other branches; title: The proper roles of government : the case of obnoxious speech; title: The exclusionary rule : when is a matter constitutional, when is it only policy?; title: Affirmative action : the use of race by government; title: The Fiesta Bowl : unintended consequences of judicial and legislative activism; title: Defining constitutional rights : Roe v. Wade; title: The Civil Rights Act of 1992 : the burden of proof as a judicial function used to achieve a legislative result; title: Two statutes, a hundred years apart : when court interpretation changes between and after two separate legislative acts; title: When the Supreme Court does not do its job : the Second Amendment; title: Methods of solving disputes between (and within) the branches of federal government; title: Another method of solving interbranch disputes : legislators going to court to sue the executive branch.