Marbury V. Madison and Judicial Review

Name: Marbury V. Madison and Judicial Review
Price: 13.96 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780700605170

ISBN-10: 0700605177

ISBN-13: 9780700605170

Edition: 1989

Authors: Robert Lowry Clinton

List price: $35.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $13.96

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Few Supreme Court decisions are as well known or loom as large in our nation's history as Marbury v. Madison. The 1803 decision is widely viewed as having established the doctrine of judicial review, which permits the Court to overturn acts of Congress that violate the Constitution; moreover, such judicial decisions are final, not subject to further appeal. Robert Clinton contends that few decisions have been more misunderstood, or misused, in the debates over judicial review. He argues that the accepted view ofMarbury is ahistorical and emerges from nearly a century of misinterpretation both by historians and by legal scholars. "This book is without doubt one of the half dozen recent works…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 9/25/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English