Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in the past have recognized that the legislative branch plays a significant role in determining structural issues, such as separation of powers and federalism, but stopped there - claiming that only courts had the independence and expertise to safeguard individual and minority rights. In...(展开全部)

In this fascinating debunking of judicial supremacy, Devins and Fisher argue that nonjudicial contributions to constitutional interpretation make the Constitution more stable, more consistent with constitutional principles, and more protective of individual and minority rights. This highly readable narrative of how the Court and elected officials work in concert with the Americ...(展开全部)

田雷，现任教于山东大学法学院，香港中文大学政治学博士，耶鲁大学法学院法学硕士，曾译有《法院与宪法》（北京大学出版社2006年）、《事故共和国：残疾的工人、贫穷的寡妇与美国法的重构》（上海三联书店2008年）。 斯蒂芬·布雷耶，自1994年起，任美国联邦最高法院大法官，在此之前，他曾任教于哈佛大学法学院，出版有《打破恶性循环：政府如何有效规制风险》、《规制及其改革》等行政法领域内的经典著作；自1980年至1994年，布雷耶为联邦第一巡回区上诉法院法官，并在土990年至土994年担任该院首席法官。在任职最高法院后，布雷耶成为自由派宪法解释理论的代言者，并在2005年出版《积极自由：美国宪法的民主解释论》一书。

This book, based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term “active liberty” as a sharing of the nation’s sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to a living and changing society rather than as an arsena...(展开全部)

This book, based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term “active liberty” as a sharing of the nation’s sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to a living and changing society rather than as an arsena...(展开全部)

田雷，现任教于山东大学法学院，香港中文大学政治学博士，耶鲁大学法学院法学硕士，曾译有《法院与宪法》（北京大学出版社2006年）、《事故共和国：残疾的工人、贫穷的寡妇与美国法的重构》（上海三联书店2008年）。 斯蒂芬·布雷耶，自1994年起，任美国联邦最高法院大法官，在此之前，他曾任教于哈佛大学法学院，出版有《打破恶性循环：政府如何有效规制风险》、《规制及其改革》等行政法领域内的经典著作；自1980年至1994年，布雷耶为联邦第一巡回区上诉法院法官，并在土990年至土994年担任该院首席法官。在任职最高法院后，布雷耶成为自由派宪法解释理论的代言者，并在2005年出版《积极自由：美国宪法的民主解释论》一书。

As everyone knows, the United States Constitution is a tangible, visible document. Many see it in fact as a sacred text, holding no meaning other than that which is clearly visible on the page. Yet as renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe shows, what is not written in the Constitution plays a key role in its interpretation. Indeed some of the most contentious Constitutional deb...(展开全部)

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims o...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.

"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Liberty.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek "A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary will of others, who puts liberty above welfare an...(展开全部)