Congress Confronts the Court
The Struggle for Legitimacy and Authority in Lawmaking
Published on 20. December 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7425-0139-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Supreme Court is frequently portrayed as an isolated entity void of politics that reaches judgments by some unseen and unknowable logic. At the same time, Congress is cast as a singularly political enterprise with little regard for nuanced lawmaking. This volume of original essays by leading scholars shows both branches in a new light. It explores the impact of sustained partisan politics, the recent reassertion of legislative power at the expense of judicial review, and the sometimes stormy relationship between Congress and the Court.
Reviews / Votes
The collection is quite readable and will provide undergraduates and laypeople with a number of issues to think about. * Political Studies Review * Provides a nice summary of the judicial decisions that have excited such divisive popular reaction to the Rehnquist Court and the contours of recent legislative efforts to influence federal judicial decision making. * Political Science Quarterly *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-0139-3 (9780742501393)
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Additional editions
Colton C. Campbell | John F. Stack Jr.
Congress Confronts the Court
The Struggle for Legitimacy and Authority in Lawmaking
E-Book
05/2002
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€32.99
Available for download
Colton C. Campbell | John F. Stack Jr.
Congress Confronts the Court
The Struggle for Legitimacy and Authority in Lawmaking
E-Book
05/2002
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€32.99
Available for download
Persons
Colton C. Campbell is assistant professor of political science at Florida International University and is currently a visiting assistant professor of political science at American University. He is the coeditor of New Majority or Old Minority? The Impact of Republicans on Congress. He served as an APSA Congressional Fellow in 1998-99 in the office of U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.). John F. Stack, Jr. is professor of political science at Florida International University and director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship. He is the author of International Conflict in an American City: Boston's Irish, Italians, and Jews, 1935-1944, and editor of Ethnic Identities in Transnational World; Policy Choices: Critical Issues in American Foreign Policy; The Primordial Challenge: Ethnicity in the Contemporary World, and The Ethnic Entanglement.
Content
Chapter 1 List of Tables, Figures, Photos and Models Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Diverging Perspectives on Lawmaking: The Delicate Balance between Congress and the Court Part 5 Congressional Objection to Judicial Prerogative Chapter 6 Congressional Checks on the Judiciary Chapter 7 Separation of Powers and Judicial Impeachment Chapter 8 Congress and the Court: The Strange Case of Census 2000 Part 9 New Sources of Congressional-Judicial Confrontation Chapter 10 How the Republican War Over "Judicial Activism" Has Cost Congress Chapter 11 Congress, the Court, and Religious Liberty: The Case of Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith Chapter 12 The Least Dangerous Branch? The Supreme Court's New Judicial Activism Part 13 Toward Institutional Comity Chapter 14 When Do Courts "Legislate"? Reflections on Congress and the Courts Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index Chapter 17 About the Contributors