01782     2200253   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001300123084001900136100002600155245015500181260005600336300003500392520087500427650006601302650006001368990002501428990002501453990002501478990002501503INLIS00000000000962620221109111643  a0010-0520009626221109                |          | eng    a9780691141020  aeng  a347.7312  a347.7312 WHI p0 aWhittington, Keith E.1 aPolitical Foundations Of Judicial Supremacy :bThe Presidency, The Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership In U.S.History /cKeith E. Whittington  aPrinceton, N.J :bPrinceton University Press,c2009  axii, 303 p. ; 24 cm. ;c24 cm.  aThis is a book about the authority of the juciciary, and particularly the Supreme Court, to determine the meaning of the constitution. It seeks to understand why the judiciary has that authority and looks for the answer in the incentives facing the individuals occupying the various institutions of government. Judicial supremacy largely consists of the ability of the Supreme Court to erase the distinction between its own opinions interpreting the Constitution and the actual Constitution itself. The Court claims the authority not only to look into the meaning of the Constitution as a guide to the justices’ own actions, but also and more impotantly to say what the Constitution means, for themselves and for everyone else. Political leaders, and most importantly presidents, have generally been willing to lend their support to those sorts of claims by the Court. 4aUnited States. Supreme Court. Judicial review --United States 4aPolitical questions and judicial power --United States.  a22195/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22196/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22196/MKRI-P/XI-2011  a22195/MKRI-P/XI-2011