Doubtful and Perilous Experiment

Advisory Opinions, State Constitutions, and Judicial Supremacy

By Mel A. Topf

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Publish Date

2011

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Language

eng

Pages

220

Description:

The story of attempts to defend advisory authority, including several attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution to require the Supreme Court to issues them. It tells the story also of the uneasy relation between advisory opinions and judicial review as well as the expansion of judicial power.

subjects: States, Judicial review, Advisory opinions, Constitutional law, Constitutional law, united states

Places: United States