Merely Judgment: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court

by Martin J. Sweet and Lynne G. Lewis

Book Overview

Merely Judgment uses affirmative action in government contracting, legislative vetoes, flag burning, hate speech, and school prayer as windows for understanding how Supreme Court decisions send signals regarding the Court's policy preferences to institutions and actors (such as lower courts, legislatures, executive branches, and interest groups), and then traces the responses of these same institutions and actors to Court decisions. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930588
• ISBN13: 9780813930589
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher