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Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Judicial review : the democratic anomaly

Establishing judicial review : Marbury v. Madison

The Cherokees

Dred Scott

Little Rock

A present-day example

The basic approach

Congress, statutes, and purposes

The executive branch, administrative action, and comparative expertise

The states and federalism : decentralization and subsidiarity

Other federal courts : specialization

Past court decisions : stability

Individual liberty : permanent values and proportionality

The President, national security, and accountability : Korematsu

Presidential power : Guantánamo and accountability.

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Breyer, Stephen G., 1938- Making our democracy work

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