The intelligible Constitution : the Supreme Court's obligation to maintain the Constitution as something we the people can understand /

The intelligible Constitution : the Supreme Court's obligation to maintain the Constitution as something we the people can understand /

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Author / Creator:	Goldstein, Joseph, 1923-2000.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 201 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Supreme Court. United States. -- Supreme Court. Constitutional law -- United States. Judicial opinions -- United States. Constitutional law. Judicial opinions. United States. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147574

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ISBN:	1429406623 9781429406628 1280527773 9781280527777 0195073282 9780195073287 9780195093759
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-194) and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	A lucid and accessible examination of the Constitution and the manner in which the Supreme Court has failed to communicate its opinions to the public in a comprehensible manner.
Other form:	Print version: Goldstein, Joseph, 1923-2000. Intelligible Constitution. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 0195073282

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Made for an undefined future
With studied ambiguity : National League of Cities v. Usery and Garcia v. San Antonio Metro Transit Authority
Had understanding been the goal : Cooper v. Aaron
Decisions unexplained : the Brown v. Board of Education cases
Failing to take their own and each other's opinions seriously : Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Toward the intelligible Constitution.