TY - BOOK AU - Breyer,Stephen G. TI - Making our democracy work: a judge's view SN - 0307269914 AV - KF4575 U1 - 347.73/12 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, NY [u.a.] PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Judicial review KW - United States KW - History KW - Political questions and judicial power KW - Separation of powers KW - Class of Spring 2009 KW - Guest speaker N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Judicial review : the democratic anomaly -- Establishing judicial review : Marbury v. Madison -- The Cherokees -- Dred Scott -- Little Rock -- A present-day example -- The basic approach -- Congress, statutes, and purposes -- The executive branch, administrative action, and comparative expertise -- The states and federalism : decentralization and subsidiarity -- Other federal courts : specialization -- Past court decisions : stability -- Individual liberty : permanent values and proportionality -- The President, national security, and accountability : Korematsu -- Presidential power : Guantánamo and accountability N2 - Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well.-- UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010016839-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010016839-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010016839-s.html ER -