Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age

by Robert F. Nagel

Book Overview

In this highly original book, Robert Nagel demonstrates how contemporary constitutional politics reflect the moral character of American culture. He persuasively argues that judicial decisions embody wider social tendenceies towards moral evasiveness, privatization, and opportunism. Constitutional interpretation, he urges, is often an effort to stifle political disagreement and, ultimately, to censor our own beliefs and traditions. Nagel ranges over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195089014
• ISBN13: 9780195089011
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"