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Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism - Ronald C. Den Otter

Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism

Buch | Softcover
358 Seiten
2012
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-40454-0 (ISBN)
CHF 78,50 inkl. MwSt
This book considers how judicial review can be improved to strike the appropriate balance between legislative and judicial power under conditions of moral pluralism. It argues that the reasons that the state offers on behalf of its most important laws should be consistent with the freedom and equality of all persons.
Americans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live without it. There is something characteristically American about turning the most divisive political questions - like freedom of religion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action and abortion - into legal questions with the hope that courts can answer them. In Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism Ronald C. Den Otter addresses how judicial review can be improved to strike the appropriate balance between legislative and judicial power under conditions of moral pluralism. His defense of judicial review is predicated on the imperative of ensuring that the reasons that the state offers on behalf of its most important laws are consistent with the freedom and equality of all persons. Den Otter ties this defense to a theory of constitutional adjudication based on John Rawls's idea of public reason and argues that a law that is not sufficiently publicly justified is unconstitutional, thus addressing when courts should invalidate laws and when they should uphold them even in the midst of reasonable disagreement about the correct outcome in particular constitutional controversies.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Public justification and constitutional theory; 2. Freedom and equality in constitutional history; 3. The challenge of public justification; 4. Competing conceptions of public reason; 5. Constitutional public reason; 6. The limits of public justification; 7. Standard objections to public reason; 8. Easier cases; 9. Harder cases; 10. The case for judicial review; Conclusion; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.5.2012
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Verfassungsverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10 1-107-40454-1 / 1107404541
ISBN-13 978-1-107-40454-0 / 9781107404540
Zustand Neuware
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