Making sense of the constitution
Subtitle: a primer on the Supreme Court and its struggle to apply our fundamental law
By: Walter M. Frank
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809330836; 9780809330843
Subjects: United States; Constitutional law; United States. Supreme Court
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some foundational ideas; title: The constitution and its amendments : an overview; title: The Fourteenth Amendment; title: The Supreme Court in the constitutional structure; title: What the court does : the stuff of judicial review; title: The federal judicial system; title: Life on the court; title: The litigation process : from complaint to Supreme Court opinion; title: The toolbox for judicial decision making; title: Crafting a constitution; title: The court in action : contemporary constitutional controversies.