Equal Protection of the Laws - Hardcover

Polyviou, Polyvios G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715613995 ISBN 13: 9780715613993

Publisher: Duckbacks, 1980

Synopsis

From the dust jacket flap: "The twin safeguards of equality and freedom from discrimination are universally acknowledged to be among the most important of human rights and are enshrined as a sacred principle in most countries' constitutions, as in the U.S. Fourteenth Amendment. . . . This book has two aims: first, to give a detailed account of substantive developments in law resulting from the judicial enforcement of equal protection (with special reference mainly to America, but also to India and Canada); and secondly, to inquire into the uses and abuses of constitutional adjudication in theory and practice. Particular attention is paid to the tensions inherent in the idea, still current, that the role of courts of law such as the U.S. Supreme Court is to resolve controversies that are essentially political -- that the function of judges is not only to interpret the law but to arbitrate between rival forces in society. The issues are complex and fundamental. This is the first comprehe

Edition details

• Publisher: Duckbacks
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715613995
• ISBN 13: 9780715613993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1