{"product_id":"judicial-independence-and-the-american-constitution-a-democratic-paradox-9780804792905","title":"Judicial Independence and the American Constitution: A Democratic Paradox","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Framers of the American Constitution took special pains to ensure that the governing principles of the republic were insulated from the reach of simple majorities. Only super-majoritarian amendments could modify these fundamental constitutional dictates. The Framers established a judicial branch shielded from direct majoritarian political accountability to protect and enforce these constitutional limits. Paradoxically, only a counter-majoritarian judicial branch could ensure the continued vitality of our representational form of government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis important lesson of the paradox of American democracy has been challenged and often ignored by office holders and legal scholars. \u003ci\u003eJudicial Independence and the American Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e provocatively defends the centrality of these special protections of judicial independence. Martin H. Redish explains how the nation's system of counter-majoritarian constitutionalism cannot survive absent the vesting of final powers of constitutional interpretation and enforcement in the one branch of government expressly protected by the Constitution from direct political accountability: the judicial branch. He uncovers how the current framework of American constitutional law has been unwisely allowed to threaten or undermine these core precepts of judicial independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin H. Redish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford Law Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804792905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin H. Redish\u003c\/b\u003e is the Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Adversary First Amendment\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eWholesale Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Persecution\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), all with Stanford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford Law Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40146710954099,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_386e76fa-40ec-4fda-a381-476b120d2ef7.jpg?v=1654695900","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/judicial-independence-and-the-american-constitution-a-democratic-paradox-9780804792905","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}