Morality Imposed: The Rehnquist Court and Liberty in America - Rilegato

Gottlieb, Stephen E.

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ISBN 10: 0814731287 ISBN 13: 9780814731284

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

We like to think of judges and justices as making decisions based on the facts and the law. But to what extent do jurists decide cases in accordance with their own preexisting philosophy of law, and what specific ideological assumptions account for their decisions?

Stephen E. Gottlieb adopts a unique perspective on the decision-making of Supreme Court justices, blending and re-characterizing traditional accounts of political philosophy in a way that plausibly explains many of the justices' voting patterns.

A seminal study of the Rehnquist Court, Morality Imposed illustrates how, in contrast to previous courts which took their mandate to be a move toward a freer and/or happier society, the current court evidences little concern for this goal, focusing instead on thinly veiled moral judgments. Delineating a fault line between liberal and conservative justices on the Rehnquist Court, Gottlieb suggests that conservative justices have rejected the basic principles that informed post-New Deal individual rights jurisprudence and have substituted their own conceptions of moral character for these fundamental principles.

Morality Imposed adds substantially to our understanding of the Supreme Court, its most recent cases, and the evolution of judicial philosophy in the U.S.

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Stephen E. Gottlieb is the Jay and Ruth Caplan Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School and author of numerous books on jurisprudence and constitutional law.   Blog Radio commentary

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Evaluating the decision-making of Supreme Court Justices, this text blends traditional accounts of political philosophy to explain justices' voting patterns. It illustrates how courts provide a thinly veiled moral judgment and how personal conceptions of moral character prevail.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0814731287
• ISBN 13: 9780814731284
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 342