02083     2200277   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001900097041000800116082001300124084001900137100002500156245007200181260006200253300003300315520116900348650008101517650005701598990002501655990002501680990002501705990002501730990002501755990002501780INLIS00000000000939820221109110334  a0010-0520009398221109                |          | eng    a978-0521762045  aeng  a347.7312  a347.7312 DEN j0 aDen Otter, Ronald C.1 aJudicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism /cRonald C. Den Otter  aCambridge ; New York :bCambridge University Press,c2009  ax, 346 p. ; 24 cm. ;c24 cm.  aAmericans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live without it. There is something characteristically American about turning the most divisive political questions – like freedom of religion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and abortion – into legal questions with the hope that courts can answer them. In Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism Ronald C. Den Otter addresses how judicial review can be improved to strike the appropriate balance between legislative and judicial power under conditions of moral pluralism. His defense of judicial review is predicated on the imperative of ensuring that the reasons that the state offers on behalf of its most important laws are consistent with the freedom and equality of all persons. Den Otter ties this defense to a theory of constitutional adjudication based on John Rawls’s idea of public reason and argues that a law that is not sufficiently publicly justified is unconstitutional, thus addressing when courts should invalidate laws and when they should uphold them even in the midst of reasonable disagreement about the correct outcome in particular constitutional controversies. 4aPolitical questions and judicial power --United States. Cultural pluralism - 4a-United States. Public policy (Law) --United States.  a22169/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22170/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22170/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22169/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22169/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22170/MKRI-P/XI-2011