Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

by Mark Tushnet and Mark V. Tushnet

Book Overview

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the power of the courts but by decreasing it. In Weak...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114320X
• ISBN13: 9780691143200
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"