American politicians confront the court : opposition politics and changing responses to judicial power /
Politicians have long questioned, or even been openly hostile to, the legitimacy of judicial authority, but that authority seems to have become more secure over time. What explains the recurrence of hostilities and yet the security of judicial power? Addressing this question anew, Stephen Engel poin...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Beyond the countermajoritarian difficulty
- A developmental theory of politician's confrontations with judicial authority
- In support of Unified Governance : undermining the court in an anti-party age
- Party against partisanship : single-party constitutionalism and the quest for regime unity
- "As party exigencies require" : republicanism, loyal opposition, and the emerging legitimacy of multiple constitutional visions
- Clashing progressive solutions to the political problem of judicial power
- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (I) : living constitutionalism and the politicization of judicial appointment
- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (II) : a conservative insurgency and a self-stylized majoritarian court responds.
