Topf, Mel A.

A doubtful and perilous experiment advisory opinions, state constitutions, and judicial supremacy / [electronic resource] : Mel A. Topf. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The story of attempts to defend advisory authority, including several attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution to require the Supreme Court to issues them. It tells the story also of the uneasy relation between advisory opinions and judicial review as well as the expansion of judicial power.



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Advisory opinions--States.--United States
Judicial review--States.--United States
Constitutional law--States.--United States

KF4579.A38 / T67 2011

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