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Modern liberal democracies typically depend on courts with the power of constitutional review to ensure that elected officials do not breach their constitutional obligations.
Jay N. Krehbiel
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Modern liberal democracies typically depend on courts with the power of constitutional review to ensure that elected officials do not breach their constitutional obligations.
Jay N. Krehbiel
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The Constitution In The Courts
1994Abstract 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 Supreme Court and the Constitution
American Political Science Review, 1924Ever 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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The Supreme Court and the Constitution
1998In 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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Pressures of Constitutional Courts
2014The 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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The Court and the Constitution.
The Journal of Southern History, 1952Owen J. Roberts, Charlotte Williams
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The Constitutional Court of Italy
The American Journal of Comparative Law, 19591. The system of constitutional guarantees introduced by the Italian Constitution and by the laws, constitutional and ordinary,' by which it is implemented, consists primarily in the establishment of a Court with exclusive jurisdiction to determine the conformity of legislation to the Constitution. The Court is empowered to pass upon the constitutional
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The Federal Constitutional Court
1996There is a long and well-established tradition of placing the Federal Constitutional Court at the centre of political life in Germany. As the authoritative interpreter of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz), that is, the federal constitution — and the final arbiter of constitutional disputes, the Court exercises substantial political power.
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