The cloaking of power [electronic resource] : Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the rise of judicial activism / Paul O. Carrese.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 335 p.)ISBN:- 9780226094830 (electronic bk.)
- 0226094839 (electronic bk.)
- Judicial process -- Political aspects -- History
- Political questions and judicial power -- History
- Judicial power -- History
- Liberalism -- History
- Jurisprudence -- History
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Blackstone, William, 1723-1780
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780
- Processus judiciaire -- Aspect politique -- Histoire
- Politique et pouvoir judiciaire -- Histoire
- Pouvoir judiciaire -- Histoire
- Libéralisme -- Histoire
- Droit -- Philosophie -- Histoire
- LAW -- Jurisprudence
- LAW -- General Practice
- LAW -- Reference
- LAW -- Essays
- LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism
- LAW -- Practical Guides
- 340/.11 22
- K2146 .C375 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-313) and index.
1: Montesquieu's jurisprudence and new judicial power -- Moderating liberalism and common law: spirit and juridical liberty -- Moderate and juridical government: the spirit of constitutional liberty -- Projects for reform: due process, national spirit, and liberal toleration -- The new aristocracy of the robe: history, reason, and judicial prudence -- 2: Blackstone and the Montesquieuan constitution -- Blackstone's liberal education for law and politics -- A gothic and liberal Constitution: Blackstone's tempering of sovereignty -- Blackstone, Lord Mansfield, and common-law liberalism -- 3: Montesquieu's judicial legacy in America -- Hamilton's common-law constitutionalism and judicial prudence -- Tocqueville's judicial statesmanship and common-law spirit -- Holmes and judicialized liberalism -- Conclusion: the cloaking of power and the perpetuation of constitutionalism.
How did the U.S. judiciary become so powerful-powerful enough that state and federal judges vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy both in America and internationally?In The Cloaking of Power, Paul O. Carrese provides a provocative and original analysis of the intellectual sources of today's powerful judiciary, arguing that Montesquieu, in his Spirit of the Laws, first articulated a new conception of the separation of powers and of strong but subtle courts. Montesquieu instructed statesmen and judges to & quot.
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