The Intelligible Constitution: The Supreme Court's Obligation to Maintain the Constitution as Something We the People Can Understand

by Joseph Goldstein and Joseph Goldstein

Book Overview

In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a critical abortion rights case, a bitterly divided Supreme Court produced no less than six different opinions. Writing for the plurality, Chief Justice Rehnquist attacked the trimester framework established in Roe v. Wade because it was "not found in the text of the Constitution or in any place else one would expect to find a constitutional principle." This approach, writes legal authority Joseph Goldstein,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073282
• ISBN13: 9780195073287
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"