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America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great

America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by David R. Dow

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Hardback. New. America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definition and historical account of judicial activism and by arguing that it is a method of prophetic adjudication which is essential to preserving American values.
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  • Title America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great
  • Author David R. Dow
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger
  • Date 2009-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780313377082
  • ISBN 9780313377082 / 0313377081
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government, Judicial review - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008051399
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.731

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From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2009, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 05/22/2009, Page 15
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2009, Page 183

About the author

DAVID R. DOW is University Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and Visiting Professor of History at Rice University. His areas of expertise include contracts, constitutional law, and death penalty law. He has handled more than fifty appeals, including 25 death penalty appeals. He earned his J.D. from Yale University, where he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal. He is the author of three books, including Executed on a Technicality (2005) and Machinery of Death (2002), and more than one hundred book chapters and professional articles. His essays and editorials on abortion, polygamy, gay marriage, affirmative action, separation of church and state, biblical law, and judicial activism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Progressive, The Houston Chronicle, and The Dallas Morning News.