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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change
Paul M. Collins
Lori A. Ringhand
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2013-06-24
主題
Law / General
Law / Constitutional
Political Science / General
Political Science / American Government / Judicial Branch
ISBN
1107039703
9781107039704
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QGMcG2keWjAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Before Supreme Court nominees are allowed take their place on the high Court, they must face a moment of democratic reckoning by appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Despite the potential this holds for public input into the direction of legal change, the hearings are routinely derided as nothing but empty rituals and political grandstanding. In this book, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present a contrarian view that uses both empirical data and stories culled from more than seventy years of transcripts to demonstrate that the hearings are a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change. As such, they are one of the ways in which "We the People" take ownership of the Constitution by examining the core constitutional values of those permitted to interpret it on our behalf.