This book grounds judicial review in its deepest foundations: the function, authority, and objectivity of a legal system as a whole.

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After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the tran

This major history of judicial review, revised to include the Rehnquist court, shows how modern courts have used their power to create new "rights with fateful

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting