Keeping the people's liberties : legislators, citizens, and judges as guardians of rights / John J. Dinan.
Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to con...
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- The Theory and Design of Republican Institutions
- Republican Institutions and the Protection of Rights
- Republican Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties
- The Theory and Design of Populist Institutions
- Populist Institutions and the Protection of Rights
- Populist Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties
- The Theory and Design of Judicialist Institutions
- Judicialist Institutions and the Protection of Rights
- Judicialist Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties.