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Author Topf, Mel A.

Title A doubtful and perilous experiment : advisory opinions, state constitutions, and judicial supremacy / Mel A. Topf.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.
Contents This peculiar obligation : the problem of state supreme courts as advisors -- Danger of grave abuses : attacks on the legitimacy of advisory opinions -- To create a power to refuse : the rise of a jurisprudence of advisory opinions -- Useful instrument of government : defending advisory opinions -- An offer that can't be refused : judicial review and the failed attempts to distinguish advice and decisions -- Advisory opinions and judicial supremacy : constitutionalism, a politicized judiciary, and the eclipse of civic debate.
Summary The story of attempts to defend advisory authority, including several attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution to require the Supreme Court to issues them. It tells the story also of the uneasy relation between advisory opinions and judicial review as well as the expansion of judicial power.
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Subject Advisory opinions -- United States -- States.
Advisory opinions.
United States.
Judicial review -- United States -- States.
Judicial review.
Constitutional law -- United States -- States.
Constitutional law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Topf, Mel A. Doubtful and perilous experiment. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780199756766 (DLC) 2011007838 (OCoLC)706025080
ISBN 9780199918898
0199918899
9780199909803 (electronic book)
0199909806 (electronic book)
9780199756766
0199756767

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