Peter was thrilled to hear that Grandpa Jack was coming to live with the family until he learned that Grandpa Jack was going to take over his bedroom and he has to move into the dark, scary guest room on the third floor. Together with his two friends, Peter devises an outrageous plan of what he will do to Grandpa to force him out of his bedroom. Grandpa Jack sees this rival activity as a joke and continues to get even with Peter. Instead of be...
This is the story of two high school students, John and Lorraine, who find themselves looking for entertainment in order to escape their unhappy homes. During a prank charity solicitation phone call, they end up meeting with Mr. Pignati, who they name the Pigman. They befriend him, at first in an effort to get $10 from him for their fake charity. They spend most of their free time at his house to escape from their own homes and because he seem...
Keith Whittington discusses the history and development of judicial review. Analyzing the arguments for and against judicial review, Whittington also relates its impact on Constiutional law throughout American history.
In a polarized time of partisan fervor, the US Supreme Court's routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through a political lens, decried by one side or the other as judicial overreach, or "legislating from the bench". But is this really the case? Keith Whittington asks in this volume, a first-of-its-kind history of judicial review.
This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the process of constitutional interpretation. But according to Keith Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain p...
A discussion of how the judiciary should interpret the Constitution. Making use of arguments drawn from American history, political philosophy and literary theory, it examines what it means to interpret a written constitution and how the courts should go about the task.
