Courts and Congress
Subtitle: America's unwritten constitution
By: William J. Quirk ; with a foreword by Ralph Nader.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781412807739
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court; Judicial power -- United States; Judge-made law -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; Legislative power -- United States; Separation of powers -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who is to decide; title: Guns, gays, and God : the happy convention and the culture wars; title: The happy convention meets the war on terror; title: The catechism of the happy convention; title: The rise of the happy convention; title: Life under the happy convention; title: Current views : Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito and the happy convention; title: The happy convention and the grizzly bear; title: Can amending the constitution end the happy convention?