{"product_id":"judicial-independence-and-the-american-constitution-a-democratic-paradox-hardback-9780804792905","title":"Judicial Independence and the American Constitution; A Democratic Paradox (Hardback) 9780804792905","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJudicial Independence and the American Constitution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Democratic Paradox\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin H. Redish (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804792905\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 March 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Unyielding and provocative, \u003ci\u003eJudicial Independence and the American Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e is a special kind of book. Redish's rigid approach to constitutional analysis challenges accepted wisdom and forces the mainstream to reconsider its assumptions. Ignore Redish at your peril. This well-written and surprisingly accessible book is sure to be oft-cited for decades.\"—Charles Geyh, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University \"This book cements Martin Redish's standing as the foremost scholar and theorist of American judicial independence. The book defines the requirements of judicial independence in light of a broader theory of American constitutionalism and its commitment to 'countermajoritarian' individual rights. It offers a tour de force of learning, close argumentation, legal imagination, and—as one has learned to expect from Redish—occasional provocation to rethink conventional wisdom.\"—Richard H. Fallon, Harvard University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Framers of the American Constitution took special pains to ensure that the governing principles of the republic were insulated from the reach of simple majorities. Only super-majoritarian amendments could modify these fundamental constitutional dictates. The Framers established a judicial branch shielded from direct majoritarian political accountability to protect and enforce these constitutional limits. Paradoxically, only a counter-majoritarian judicial branch could ensure the continued vitality of our representational form of government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis important lesson of the paradox of American democracy has been challenged and often ignored by office holders and legal scholars. \u003ci\u003eJudicial Independence and the American Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e provocatively defends the centrality of these special protections of judicial independence. Martin H. Redish explains how the nation's system of counter-majoritarian constitutionalism cannot survive absent the vesting of final powers of constitutional interpretation and enforcement in the one branch of government expressly protected by the Constitution from direct political accountability: the judicial branch. He uncovers how the current framework of American constitutional law has been unwisely allowed to threaten or undermine these core precepts of judicial independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: America's Contribution to Political Thought: Prophylactic Judicial Independence as an Instrument of Democratic Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Foundations of American Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e  2. A Taxonomy of Judicial Independence\u003cbr\u003e  3. Judicial Impeachment, Judicial Discipline, and American Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e  4. State Courts, Due Process, and the Dangers of Popular Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e  5. Constitutionalism, Democracy, and the Pathology of Legislative Deception\u003cbr\u003e  6. Habeas Corpus, Due Process, and American Constitutionalism\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford Law Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551710081304,"sku":"9780804792905","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/judicial-independence-and-the-american-constitution-a-democratic-paradox-hardback-9780804792905","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}