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The Least Dangerous Branch
About this book
This classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions along the way.Ā Eminent law professor Alexander Bickel begins with Marbury vs. Madison, which he says gives shaky support to judicial review, and concludes with the school desegregation cases of 1954, which he uses to show the extent and limits of the Courtās power.Ā In this way he accomplishes his stated purpose: āto have the Supreme Courtās exercise of judicial review better understood and supported and more sagaciously used.āĀ The book now includes new foreword by Henry Wellington.
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The
LeastĀ
DangerousĀ
Branch
leeway,
without
offense
to
principle.Ā
They
may
well
beĀ
forĀ
the
1960's
the
equivalent
of
segregatedĀ
schooling
a
centuryĀ
ago.Ā
This
is
notĀ
toĀ
say
that
the
SupremeĀ
CourtĀ
shouldĀ
legitimate
themāonly
that
it
shouldĀ
leave
their
constitutionality
undecided.
Before
exam-
ining,
however,
the
jurisdictional
techniques
and
cognateĀ
devices
which
wouldĀ
enable
the
Court
to
achieveĀ
thisĀ
result,
we
must
considerĀ
certainĀ
otherĀ
approaches
toĀ
the
generalĀ
problem
ofĀ
the
nature
and
justification
of
judicialĀ
review.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Establishment and General Justification of Judicial Review
- CHAPTER 2. The Premise of Distrust and Rules of Limitation
- CHAPTER 3. āThe Infirm Glory of the Positive Hourā
- CHAPTER 4. The Passive Virtues
- CHAPTER 5. Neither Force nor Will
- CHAPTER 6. The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics
- Notes
- Table of Cases
- Index