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Article: We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court.(Review) (book review)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Perry, Michael J. We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court New York: Oxford University Press 288 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512362-X
Michael Perry, who holds the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University, examines the charge made by political conservatives such as Robert Bork and William Bennett that recent Supreme Court interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment amount to a judicial usurpation of politics. The conservative criticism is that the Court has been issuing decisions on matters that should properly be resolved in the more democratically accountable parts of our government. Perry examines recent Supreme Court ...