Keeping the people's liberties : legislators, citizens, and judges as guardians of rights /

Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to con...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Dinan, John J.
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1998.
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الملخص:Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era. By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
التنسيق:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index.
ردمك:9780700630851
0700630856