The Rise of Modern Judicial Review

Christopher Wolfe

doi:10.5771/9781461645467

Summary

This major history of judicial review, revised to include the Rehnquist court, shows how modern courts have used their power to create new "rights with fateful political consequences." Originally published by Basic Books.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1994
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8226-3026-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-4546-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 449
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION No access
3. PREFACE No access
Introduction: The Rise of Judge-Made Constitutional Law No access Pages 3 - 12
1. 1. Blackstone No access
  2. The Federalist No access
  3. Early Constitutional Debates No access
  4. Conclusion No access
2. 1. Marshall's Rules of Interpretation No access
  2. Marshall's Interpretation of the Constitution No access
  3. Criticism and Defense No access
  4. Later Traditional Interpretation No access
  5. Conclusion No access
3. 1. The Federalist No access
  2. Limited But Authoritative Judicial Review No access
  3. Marbury v. Madison No access
  4. Criticism and Defense No access
4. 1. Alternatives to Judicial Review No access
  2. Judicial Review and Its Competitors: A Dialectic No access
  3. Moderate Judicial Review No access
  4. Conclusion No access
1. 1. Section 1 No access
  2. The Problem of the Original Intention of the Fourteenth Amendment No access
  3. Privileges and Immunities No access
  4. Due Process No access
  5. Equal Protection of the Laws No access
  6. Judges and the Fourteenth Amendment No access
2. 1. Origins of Substantive Due Process No access
  2. Development of Substantive Due Process No access
  3. The Era of Economic Due Process No access
  4. The Distinctiveness of Economic Due Process No access
  5. The Court's Self-Understanding No access
  6. The Fall of Economic Due Process No access
3. 1. Prohibition of Commerce No access
  2. Regulation of What Affects Interstate Commerce No access
  3. The Definition of Interstate Commerce No access
  4. The New Deal No access
  5. Transitional Commerce Cases and Traditional Standards No access
  6. The New Deal Triumph No access
4. 1. Free Speech: The Original Understanding No access
  2. Early Modem Cases No access
  3. The Clear and Present Danger Test No access
  4. Traditional Versus Modern Speech Tests No access
  5. Bad Tendency and Hand's Masses Test No access
  6. Conclusion No access
1. 1. Congressional Government No access
  2. Constitutional Government in the United States No access
  3. Wilson and the Constitution No access
  4. Other Twentieth-Century Critiques No access
  5. Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell No access
  6. Conclusion No access
2. 1. Holmes No access
  2. The Nature of the Judicial Process No access
  3. Conclusion No access
3. 1. The Birth of "Balancing" No access
  2. Preferred Position No access
  3. Conclusion No access
4. 1. Brown and Desegregation No access
  2. Race in the 1960s No access
  3. Reapportionment No access
  4. Criminal Defendants' Rights No access
  5. The Judicial Necessary and Proper Clause No access
  6. First Amendment: Speech and Press in the 1960s No access
  7. The Court and Liberalism No access
  8. Religion No access
  9. The Pandora's Box of Nonracial Equal Protection No access
  10. Privacy No access
5. 1. Criminal Defendants' Rights No access
  2. Equal Protection No access
  3. Privacy No access
  4. The Death Penalty No access
  5. Free Speech No access
  6. Freedom of Religion No access
  7. Old Doctrines Reinvigorated? No access
  8. Conclusion No access
6. 1. The Traditional Era No access
  2. The Transitional Era No access
  3. The Modern Era No access
  4. Taking Rights Seriously No access
  5. Judicial Review and "Functional" Analysis No access
  6. Democracy and Distrust No access
  7. From Present to Past? No access
1. 1. The Burger Court Trends Continue No access
  2. The Revolution That Didn't Quite Happen No access
  3. Some Genuine Changes--or Hints Thereof No access
  4. Conclusion No access
1. The Order of Interpretation No access
2. The Major Criticisms No access
3. Conclusion No access
NOTES No access Pages 403 - 432
INDEX OF CASES No access Pages 433 - 440
SUBJECT INDEX No access Pages 441 - 448
ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 449 - 449