Death Penalties The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course

Berger, Raoul

ISBN 10: 0674194268 / ISBN 13: 9780674194267

Published by Harvard University Press, 1982, 1982

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Near Fine in Very Good jacket.1st Edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death Penalties The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1982
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674194268
• ISBN 13: 9780674194267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • LAW

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Synopsis

Does the Supreme Court have the authority to deprive the people of the right to govern themselves? Marshaling a convincing array of historical sources, Raoul Berger demonstrates in Death Penalties that the Framers of the Constitution withheld such power from the Court and that its death penalty decisions unconstitutionally impose the Justices' morals upon an unwilling people.

Synopsis

Argues that the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the death penalty provide an unconstitutional imposition of the Justices' morals on the American people, examining the constitutional right of the people to enact death penalties.