Constitutional Law

This volume of essays explores a number of fundamental constitutional law questions in a variety of historical and jurisdictional contexts. The contributions focus on the role to be played by courts and legal principles in the resolution of major political controversies and on the progressive development of constitutional jurisprudence in countries sharing a broadly common law legal tradition. The guiding theme pervading the collection is an attempt to measure the legitimacy of judicial (in-)activism when courts are faced with difficult political choices on matters such as slavery, internment, racism and voting rights, and radical economic policies, and are also confronted with the requirement to attach concrete meanings to such abstract concepts as the separation of powers and the rule of law.

ISBN 0754620662   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780754620662 (What's this?)   Pages 460 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Volumes 001 Imprint Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1134 Format Hardback   Published in Aldershot Publication date 16 Oct 2000   Series title International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory: Second Series Non-book description xxv, 477 p. ;   Height (mm) 182 Library of Congress K3165.C59   Width (mm) 251 DEWEY 342.02   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Acknowledgements
		Series Preface
		Introduction
		The Rule of Law and its Virtue by Joseph Raz		3
		Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law by Herbert Wechsler		21
		The Dred Scott Decision, in the Light of Contemporary by Edward S. Corwin		59
		Somerset: Lord Mansfield and the Legitimacy of Slavery in the Anglo-American World by William M. Wiecek		77
		Liberty of Contract by Roscoe Pound		141
		Judicial Review of Social Policy in England by Harold J. Laski		175
		The Japanese American Cases - A Disaster by Eugene V. Rostow		195
		Liversidge v.Anderson in Retrospect by R. F. V. Heuston		241
		Constitutionalism in the South African Republics by L. M. Thompson		279
		The Entrenched Sections of the South Africa Act: Two Great Legal Battles by Denis V. Cowen		303
		The Basis of Legal Sovereignty by H. W. R. Wade		333
		Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament after Factortame by P. P. Craig		359
		Law, Convention, Prerogative: Reflections Prompted by the Canadian Constitutional Case by T. R. S. Allan		397
		The New York Times Case: A Note on "The Central Meaning of the First Amendment" by Harry Kalven, Jr.		415
		Engineers is Dead, Long Live the Engineers! by George Williams		447
		Name Index		473

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