by Robert Lowry Clinton



Editorial Reviews

Political Science Quarterly
"This book without doubt will be central to the scholarly dispute about
judicial review."

Product Description:

Few Supreme Court decisions are as well known or loom as large in our
nation's history as Marbury v. Madison. The 1803 decision is widely viewed
as having established the doctrine of judicial review, which permits the
Court to overturn acts of Congress that violate the Constitution;
moreover, such judicial decisions are final, not subject to further
appeal.

Robert Clinton contends that few decisions have been more misunderstood,
or misused, in the debates over judicial review. He argues that the
accepted view of Marbury is ahistorical and emerges from nearly a century
of misinterpretation both by historians and by legal scholars.

Product Details

Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: University Press of Kansas; Reprint edition (September 1, 1991)
ISBN: 0700605177