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    Keeping the People's Liberties : Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (1998)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University Press of Kansas
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    gbv_1832333426
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    ISBN: 9780700630851
    Content: Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era.By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states-Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon-Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the midtwentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties.By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions.By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions
    Note: English
    Language: Undetermined
    URL: kostenfrei
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    Stabi Berlin
    UB Potsdam
  • 2
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    Keeping the people's liberties : legislators, citizens, and judges as guardians of rights (1998)
    Lawrence, Kan : University Press of Kansas
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    UID:
    gbv_1773367366
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 259 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    ISBN: 9780700630851 , 0700630856
    Content: The Theory and Design of Republican Institutions --Republican Institutions and the Protection of Rights --Republican Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties --The Theory and Design of Populist Institutions --Populist Institutions and the Protection of Rights --Populist Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties --The Theory and Design of Judicialist Institutions --Judicialist Institutions and the Protection of Rights --Judicialist Institutions as Keepers of the People's Liberties.
    Content: Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era. By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0700609059
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780700609055
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dinan, John J Keeping the people's liberties Lawrence, Kan : University Press of Kansas, ©1998
    Language: English
    URL: kostenfrei
    URL: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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    Stabi Berlin
  • 3
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    Keeping the People's Liberties : Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (1998)
    University Press of Kansas | Lawrence (Kan.) :University Press of Kansas,
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    UID:
    edoccha_9959711215802883
    Format: 1 online resource (XII-259 p.)
    ISBN: 0-7006-0905-9
    Content: Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era.By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon—Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the midtwentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties.By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions.By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.
    Note: English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7006-3085-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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    Charité
  • 4
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    Keeping the People's Liberties : Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (1998)
    University Press of Kansas | Lawrence (Kan.) :University Press of Kansas,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9959711215802883
    Format: 1 online resource (XII-259 p.)
    ISBN: 0-7006-0905-9
    Content: Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era.By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon—Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the midtwentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties.By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions.By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.
    Note: English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7006-3085-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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    FU Berlin
  • 5
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    Keeping the People's Liberties : Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (1998)
    University Press of Kansas | Lawrence (Kan.) :University Press of Kansas,
    Details
    UID:
    almahu_9949331788702882
    Format: 1 online resource (XII-259 p.)
    ISBN: 0-7006-0905-9
    Content: Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era.By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon—Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the midtwentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties.By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions.By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.
    Note: English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7006-3147-X
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7006-3085-6
    Language: English
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    HU Berlin
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