TY - BOOK AU - Campbell,Thomas ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Separation of powers in practice AV - KF4565 .C36 2004eb U1 - 342.73/044 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Separation of powers KW - United States KW - Cases KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Synopsis of the advantages of the separate branches of government -- Rules of the legislative process -- Statutory construction : the courts review the work of the legislature -- Stare decisis : the self-imposed constraint by the judicial branch not shared by the other branches -- The proper roles of government : the case of obnoxious speech -- The exclusionary rule : when is a matter constitutional, when is it only policy? -- Affirmative action : the use of race by government -- The Fiesta Bowl : unintended consequences of judicial and legislative activism -- Defining constitutional rights : Roe v. Wade -- The Civil Rights Act of 1992 : the burden of proof as a judicial function used to achieve a legislative result -- Two statutes, a hundred years apart : when court interpretation changes between and after two separate legislative acts -- When the Supreme Court does not do its job : the Second Amendment -- Methods of solving disputes between (and within) the branches of federal government : legislative vetoes, delegation to agencies, courts' equity powers -- Another method of solving interbranch disputes : legislators going to court to sue the executive branch; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10070372 ER -