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Implementing the Constitution

By: Richard H. FALLON

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This book argues that the Supreme Court performs two functions. The first is to identify the Constitution's idealized "meaning." The second is to develop tests and doctrines to realize that meaning in practice. Bridging the gap between the two--implementing the Constitution--requires moral vision, but also practical wisdom and common sense, ingenuity, and occasionally a willingness to make compromises. In emphasizing the Court's responsibility to make practical judgments, Implementing the Constitution takes issue with the two positions that have dominated recent debates about the Court's proper role. Constitutional "originalists" maintain that the Court's essential function is to identify the "original understanding" of constitutional language and then apply it deductively to current problems. This position is both unwise and unworkable, the book argues. It also critiques well-known accounts according to which the Court is concerned almost exclusively with matters of moral and constitutional principle. Implementing the Constitution bridges the worlds of constitutional theory, political theory, and constitutional practice. It illuminates the Supreme Court's decision of actual cases and its development of well-known doctrines. It is a doctrinal study that yields jurisprudential insights and a contribution to constitutional theory that is closely tied to actual judicial practice.

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The Dynamic Constitution

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law

By: Richard H. Fallon

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The Dynamic Constitution

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law

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[In this book, the author] introduces non-lawyers to the workings of American constitutional law. He writes about leading constitutional doctrines and issues, including freedom of speech and religion, the guarantee of equal protection, rights to fair procedures, and rights to privacy and sexual autonomy. [He] describes many of the ... cases and personalities that have shaped constitutional law, demonstrating how historical, cultural, and other factors have influenced constitutional adjudication. Furthermore, [he] argues that the Constitution must serve as a dynamic document that adapts to the changing conditions inherent in human affairs.-Dust jacket.

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0521840945

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The Nature of Constitutional Rights

The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny

By: Richard H. Fallon Jr.

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The Nature of Constitutional Rights

The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny

By: Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Explains constitutional rights, how courts must identify them, and why their protections are more limited than most people think.

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Implementing the Constitution

By: Richard H. FALLON,Richard H Fallon

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Implementing the Constitution

By: Richard H. FALLON,Richard H Fallon

This book argues that the Supreme Court performs two functions. The first is to identify the Constitution's idealized "meaning." The second is to develop tests and doctrines to realize that meaning in practice. Bridging the gap between the two--implementing the Constitution--requires moral vision, but also practical wisdom and common sense, ingenuity, and occasionally a willingness to make compromises. In emphasizing the Court's responsibility to make practical judgments, "Implementing the Constitution" takes issue with the two positions that have dominated recent debates about the Court's proper role. Constitutional "originalists" maintain that the Court's essential function is to identify the "original understanding" of constitutional language and then apply it deductively to current problems. This position is both unwise and unworkable, the book argues. It also critiques well-known accounts according to which the Court is concerned almost exclusively with matters of moral and constitutional principle. "Implementing the Constitution" bridges the worlds of constitutional theory, political theory, and constitutional practice. It illuminates the Supreme Court's decision of actual cases and its development of well-known doctrines. It is a doctrinal study that yields jurisprudential insights and a contribution to constitutional theory that is closely tied to actual judicial practice.

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0674036670

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Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

By: Richard H. Fallon Jr.

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Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

By: Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Winner of the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center on the Constitution Why do self-proclaimed constitutional “originalists” so regularly reach decisions with a politically conservative valence? Do “living constitutionalists” claim a license to reach whatever results they prefer, without regard to the Constitution’s language and history? In confronting these questions, Richard H. Fallon reframes and ultimately transcends familiar debates about constitutional law, constitutional theory, and judicial legitimacy. Drawing from ideas in legal scholarship, philosophy, and political science, Fallon presents a theory of judicial legitimacy based on an ideal of good faith in constitutional argumentation. Good faith demands that the Justices base their decisions only on legal arguments that they genuinely believe to be valid and are prepared to apply to similar future cases. Originalists are correct about this much. But good faith does not forbid the Justices to refine and adjust their interpretive theories in response to the novel challenges that new cases present. Fallon argues that theories of constitutional interpretation should be works in progress, not rigid formulas laid down in advance of the unforeseeable challenges that life and experience generate. Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court offers theories of constitutional law and judicial legitimacy that accept many tenets of legal realism but reject its corrosive cynicism. Fallon’s account both illuminates current practice and prescribes urgently needed responses to a legitimacy crisis in which the Supreme Court is increasingly enmeshed.

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The Dynamic Constitution

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law and Practice

By: Richard H. Fallon

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The Dynamic Constitution

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law and Practice

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In this revised second edition of The Dynamic Constitution, Richard H. Fallon, Jr provides an engaging, sophisticated introduction to American constitutional law.

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The Dynamic Constitution

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law and Practice

By: Richard H. Fallon, Jr

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An Introduction to American Constitutional Law and Practice

By: Richard H. Fallon, Jr

In this revised and updated second edition of The Dynamic Constitution, Richard H. Fallon, Jr provides an engaging, sophisticated introduction to American constitutional law. Suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, this book discusses contemporary constitutional doctrine involving such issues as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, rights to privacy and sexual autonomy, the death penalty, and the powers of Congress. Through examples of Supreme Court cases and portraits of past and present Justices, this book dramatizes the historical and cultural factors that have shaped constitutional law. The Dynamic Constitution, 2nd edition, combines detailed explication of current doctrine with insightful analysis of the political culture and theoretical debates in which constitutional practice is situated. Professor Fallon uses insights from political science to explain some aspects of constitutional evolution and emphasizes features of the judicial process that distinguish constitutional law from ordinary politics.

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113961987X

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2006 Supplement to Constitutional Law

Cases-comments-questions, Tenth Edition

By: Jesse H. Choper,Richard H. Fallon, Jr.,Yale Kamisar,Steven H. Shiffrin

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2006 Supplement to Constitutional Law

Cases-comments-questions, Tenth Edition

By: Jesse H. Choper,Richard H. Fallon, Jr.,Yale Kamisar,Steven H. Shiffrin

Supplement to Choper, Fallon, Kamisar & Shiffrin's Constitutional Law: Cases & Comments?Questions, 10th

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0314168192

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Frontiers of Legal Theory

By: Richard A. Posner

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Frontiers of Legal Theory

By: Richard A. Posner

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.

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The Nature of Constitutional Rights

The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny

By: Richard H. Fallon Jr.

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The Nature of Constitutional Rights

The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny

By: Richard H. Fallon Jr.

What does it mean to have a constitutional right in an era in which most rights must yield to 'compelling governmental interests'? After recounting the little-known history of the invention of the compelling-interest formula during the 1960s, The Nature of Constitutional Rights examines what must be true about constitutional rights for them to be identified and enforced via 'strict scrutiny' and other, similar, judge-crafted tests. The book's answers not only enrich philosophical understanding of the concept of a 'right', but also produce important practical payoffs. Its insights should affect how courts decide cases and how citizens should think about the judicial role. Contributing to the conversation between originalists and legal realists, Richard H. Fallon, Jr explains what constitutional rights are, what courts must do to identify them, and why the protections that they afford are more limited than most people think.

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1108651879

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Hart and Wechsler's the Federal Courts and the Federal System Supplement

By: Richard H. Fallon, JR.,John F. Manning,Daniel J. Meltzer,David L. Shapiro

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Hart and Wechsler's the Federal Courts and the Federal System Supplement

By: Richard H. Fallon, JR.,John F. Manning,Daniel J. Meltzer,David L. Shapiro

This 2008 Supplement updates the main text with recent developments. Topics discussed include the development and structure of the federal judicial system; cases and controversies; the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; the distribution of judicial power among federal and state courts; review of state court decisions by the Supreme Court; civil actions in the district courts; federal common law; jurisdiction of the district courts; suits challenging official action; limitations on district court jurisdiction; federal habeas corpus; problems of district court jurisdiction; and appellate review of federal decisions.

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1599414716

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Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

By: Richard H. Fallon (Jr.)

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Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

By: Richard H. Fallon (Jr.)

The book addresses questions about the roles of law and politics and the challenge of legitimacy in constitutional adjudication in the Supreme Court. With all sophisticated observers recognizing that the Justices' political outlooks influence their decision making, many political scientists, some of the public, and a few prominent judges have become Cynical Realists. In their view Justices vote based on their policy preferences, and legal reasoning is mere window-dressing. This book rejects Cynical Realism, but without denying many Realist insights. It explains the limits of language and history in resolving contentious constitutional issues. To rescue the notion that the Constitution is law that binds the Justices, the book provides an original account of what law is and means in the Supreme Court. It also offers a theory of legitimacy in Supreme Court adjudication. Given the nature of law in the Supreme Court, we need to accept and learn to respect reasonable disagreement about many constitutional issues. If so, the legitimacy question becomes: how would the Justices need to decide cases so that even those who disagree with the outcomes ought to respect the Justices' processes of decision? The book gives a fresh and counterintuitive answer to that vital question. Adapting a methodology made famous by John Rawls, it argues that the Justices should strive to achieve a "reflective equilibrium" between their interpretive principles, framed to identify the Constitution's enduring meaning, and their judgments about appropriate outcomes in particular cases, evaluated as prescriptions for the nation to live by in the future. The book blends the perspectives of law, philosophy, and political science to answer theoretical and practical questions of pressing national importance"--

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The Dynamic Constitution

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law and Practice

By: Richard H. Fallon

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An Introduction to American Constitutional Law and Practice

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In this revised second edition of The Dynamic Constitution, Richard H. Fallon, Jr provides an engaging, sophisticated introduction to American constitutional law.

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Implementing the Constitution

Implementing the Constitution

The Dynamic Constitution

The Dynamic Constitution

The Nature of Constitutional Rights

The Nature of Constitutional Rights

Implementing the Constitution

Implementing the Constitution

Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

The Dynamic Constitution

The Dynamic Constitution

The Dynamic Constitution

The Dynamic Constitution

2006 Supplement to Constitutional Law

2006 Supplement to Constitutional Law

Frontiers of Legal Theory

Frontiers of Legal Theory

The Nature of Constitutional Rights

The Nature of Constitutional Rights

Hart and Wechsler's the Federal Courts and the Federal System Supplement

Hart and Wechsler's the Federal Courts and the Federal System Supplement

Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

The Dynamic Constitution

The Dynamic Constitution

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