Making sense of the constitution a primer on the Supreme Court and its struggle to apply our fundamental law /
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10579708 |
Table of Contents:
- Some foundational ideas
- The Constitution and its Amendments : an overview
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- The Supreme Court in the constitutional structure
- What the court does : the stuff of judicial review
- The federal judicial system
- Life on the court
- The litigation process : from complaint to Supreme Court opinion
- The toolbox for judicial decision making
- Crafting a Constitution
- The court in action : contemporary constitutional controversies.