founding fathers, pop culture, and constitutional law
Subtitle: who's your daddy
By: by Susan Burgess.
Series: Law, justice, and power
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780754672456
Subjects: Judicial review -- United States.; Political questions and judicial power -- United States.; Law and politics.; Popular culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-136) and index.
Table of contents: value: A fine romance : judicial restraint as a romance novel; value: Who's your daddy? : judicial activism as a soap opera; value: Space aliens save country from ruin? : critical race theory as tabloid science fiction; value: Did the Supreme Court come out in Bush v. Gore? : the instability of judicial identity; value: The drama of contemporary constitutional discourse : Lawrence v. Texas as a makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick.