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Constitution, Court, and Authority

Law & Society Review, 1988
In this book the author's approach to the Supreme Court differs from that of most political scientists. The book is not about what the Court does, but rather about what the Court is and, ultimately, where it is in the American polity's system of authority.
John Brigham, Susan E. Grogan
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A Constitutional Court for Europe?

Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 2004
The purpose of this article is to consider the effect of the draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe on the European Court of Justice (ECJ). At the time of writing, the future of the draft Constitution is somewhat uncertain. Having been finalised by the Convention on the Future of Europe in the summer of 2003 and submitted to the then ...
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(Constitutional Court)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Greek Abstract: Τα Συνταγματικά Δικαστήρια θeωρούνται ως προστάτeς της Συνταγματικής τάξης. Πλην όμως αμφισβητeίται το κατά πόσο αποτeλούν την καλύτeρη δυνατή eπιλογή.English Abstract: Constitutional Courts are considered as protectors of the constitutional order. However, it is questioned whether they constitute the best available option.
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Canada’s Constitution and Courts

2018
This chapter explores the development of Canadian constitutionalism leading up to judicial engagement with the horizontal effect of rights. The Supreme Court of Canada already enjoyed an exceptionally broad jurisdiction when the enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 gave it an extensive set of constitutional rights to interpret.
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The Constitution In The Courts

1994
Abstract In the modern period of American constitutional law—the period since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated public schooling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)—there has been a persistent and vigorous debate in the United States about whether the Court has merely been enforcing the Constitution or whether ...
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The Constitution, the Courts and the Legislature

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This is the text of the second Brian Lenihan Memorial Address, delivered at Trinity College Dublin on Saturday 16th February 2013. The lecture addresses the relationship between the executive, the legislature and the Courts under the Irish Constitution.
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Colombia (The Colombian Constitutional Court)

2018
Often ignored by the law, intersexuality has been the subject of numerous decisions by the Colombian Constitutional Court. For more than 20 years now, this court has discussed the issue of sexual diversity, producing a consistent legal framework for practitioners, activists and intersex people. Such a framework, interestingly, was developed through the
RUBIO MARIN, Ruth, OSELLA, Stefano
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The Supreme Court and the Constitution

1998
In recent years, the Supreme Court, like other American governmental institutions, has confronted the destabilizing forces of modernism. These have simultaneously upset established theories of law and unsettled electoral politics. These broad structural forces, more than the personal predilections of the justices, have shaped the contemporary character
James Giordano, Cornell W. Clayton
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The Supreme Court and the Constitution

American Political Science Review, 1924
Ever since the famous case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803, the United States Supreme Court has exercised the power of declaring acts of Congress unconstitutional and of refusing to enforce them as law. From the beginning, the exercise of this power has been the subject of great controversies as to both theory and practice.
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Pressures of Constitutional Courts

2014
The chapter deals with the constitutional challenges of the European arrest warrant. It is divided into four sections is summarised with concluding observations. Section 12.1 analyses the situation in Poland and the necessity to amend the Polish Constitution under the pressure of the Constitutional Tribunal.
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