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Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights.(Review) (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, December, 1999 by Tarr, G. Alan
Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights. By John J. Dinan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 260p. $35.00.
Contemporary Americans are accustomed to looking to courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, to safeguard their rights. Many legal scholars--most notably Ronald Dworkin and Michael Perry--have encouraged this reliance, portraying courts as uniquely well situated to enunciate constitutional principles and to guarantee rights, especially those of discrete and insular minorities. According to these scholars, the ...
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