Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus The American People - Hardcover

Overruling Democracy; The Supreme Court vs. The American People

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First Printing. 290, notes, index, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. Jamin Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. The district is located in Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extends through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. In Congress, Raskin chairs the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Congressional Freethought Caucus, and was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Prior to his election to Congress, he was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project The author, a law professor, argues that America needs to develop a whole new set of rights, through amendments or court decisions, that revitalize and protect the democracy of everyday life. The Supreme Court has recently issued decisions announcing that citizens have neither a constitutional right to vote, nor the right to an education. Conservative judges have continually disavowed claims to any rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. In "Overruling Democracy, " celebrated law professor Jamin B. Raskin, argues that we need to develop a whole new set of rights, through amendments or court decisions, that revitalize and protect the democracy of everyday life. Detailing specific cases through interesting narratives, "Overruling Democracy" describes the transgressions of the Supreme Court against the Constitution and the people - and the faulty reasoning behind them -- and lays out the plan for the best way to back a more democratic system. Artikel-Nr. 52117

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