In the Shadow of the Great Charter: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Magna Carta - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KansasISBN-13:9780700620913ISBN-10:700620915UPC:9780700620913Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Constitutions, History & Theory, American GovernmentSize:8.56 x 6.73 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCK0XRQ3QR
In the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, of course. But he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would a twenty-first century judge, even under the extraordinary circumstances of the "war on terror," invoke a document signed by an English king in the thirteenth century? To...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KansasISBN-13:9780700620913ISBN-10:700620915UPC:9780700620913Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Constitutions, History & Theory, American GovernmentSize:8.56 x 6.73 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCK0XRQ3QR
Pallitto, Robert M.: - Robert M. Pallitto is associate professor of political science at Seton Hall University. He is author of Torture and State Violence in the United States: A Short Documentary History and, with William G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law.
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