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Overruling democracy : the Supreme Court vs. the American people / Jamin B. Raskin.

Author: Raskin, Jamin B.

Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003.

ISBN: 0415934397 (hbk.)
0415948959 (pbk. ed.)

Description: xiii, 290 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject: United States. Supreme Court.
Political questions and judicial power United States.

Contents: The Supreme Court and America's democracy deficit -- The court supreme : Bush v. Gore and the judicial assault on democracy -- Reading democracy out : the citizen has no right to vote and the majority doesn't rule -- Unequal protection : the Supreme Court's racial double standard in redistricting -- America's signature exclusion : how democracy is made safe for the two-party system -- "Arrogant Orwellian bureaucrats" : how America's electoral-industrial complex controls our political debates and gerrymanders your mind -- Schooling for democracy -- Democracy and the corporation -- Unflagging patriotism : the people, the flag, and the Constitution -- Democracy rising : overruling the court, rerighting America.

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HWLC 6th Floor Adult KF8748.R33 2003 Hardcover Not checked out 04/30/2010