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- About this book
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Like many books, this one argues for a more restrained Supreme Court. Unlike most other books, however, this one grounds that call in a fully elaborated constitutional theory that goes beyond the "counter-majoritarian difficulty."
- About the authors
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Jerold Waltman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, where he teaches constitutional law. He is the author of eight previous books, the most recent of which is Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty: The Case of City of Boerne v. Flores (2013).
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Where We Are Now
Pages 1-19
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How We Got Here, Part 1: From the Old Activism to the Warren Court
Pages 20-38
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How We Got Here, Part 2: The Rise of Conservative Judicial Activism
Pages 39-56
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A Constitutional Theory of Judicial Restraint
Pages 57-82
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Objections
Pages 83-99
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Principled Judicial Restraint: A Case Against Activism
- Authors
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- Jerold Waltman
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Jerold Waltman
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-48696-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137486967
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-49065-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 117
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
