Title: Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence
First published: 2009
Description: With a record reliably neither liberal nor conservative, Kennedy has generally been viewed as a capricious, indecisive moderate. Frank Colucci, however, argues that Kennedy indeed displays a coherent approach to constitutional interpretation. Colucci identifies Kennedy's core belief: that judges have a duty to ensure the word liberty in the Constitution be given its full and necessary meaning. Colucci shows that Kennedy rejects theories of originalism and judicial restraint. Instead, Kennedy adopts a moral reading of the Constitution in which liberty and human dignity trump even democracy. --From publisher description.
Subjects: Civil rights, Kennedy, anthony, 1936-, Civil rights, united states
LC classification: KF4749 .C6425 2009