Product Description: Laurence H. Tribe hace una revisión histórica de las nociones legales del aborto en Estados Unidos, desde 1920, y expone el lado constitucional del fenómeno, sin pretender con ello descalificar alguna de las posturas en pugna: de quienes se abocan a la defensa de la libertad de la mujer a elegir y a decidir sobre su cuerpo, contra quienes se deciden a abogar por el derecho a la vida de los no nacidos...read more

Product Description: This work offers guidelines for reaching what the author calls a "negotiated peace" on the abortion issue. He aims to defuse the extremism of both the pro-life and the pro-choice advocates and to allow for the right to privacy of individuals, to ease relations between men and women and to heal the rift between the search for individual freedom and the yearning for community and tradition...read more

Product Description: Professor Tribe’s highly regarded treatise on constitutional law is organized around issues, or constitutional functions, rather than being a sequential discussion of the text to the Constitution. The text is heavily footnoted with references to treatises, law review articles, the U...read more

Constitutional Choices illuminates the world 0f scholarship and advocacy uniquely combined by Laurence Tribe, one of the nation's leading professors of constitutional law and most successful practitioners before the Supreme Court. In his new hook, Tribe boldly moves beyond the seemingly endless debate over which judicial approaches to enforcing the Constitution are "legitimate" and which are not. Arguing that all claims to legitimacy must remain suspect, Tribe focuses instead on the choices that must nonetheless be made in resolving actual constitutional controversies. To do so, he examines problems as diverse as interstate banking, gender discrimination, church subsidies, the constitutional amendment process, the war powers of the President, and First Amendment protection of American Nazis. Challenging the ruling premises underlying many 0f the Supreme Court's positions on fundamental issues of government authority and individual rights, Tribe shows how the Court is increasingly coming to resemble a judicial Office of Management and Budget, straining constitutional discourse through a managerial sieve and defending its constitutional rulings by "balancing'' what it counts as "costs" against what it deems benefits?' Tribe explains how the Court's "Calculus" systematically excludes basic concerns about the distribution of wealth and power and conceals fundamental choices about the American polity. Calling for a more candid confrontation of those choices and of the principles and perspectives they reflect, Tribe exposes what has gone wrong and suggests how the Court can begin to reclaim the historic role entrusted to it by the Constitution.

Demystifies the process of reading the Constitution, examines controversial issues and debates, and discusses the Supreme Court's constitional role

Assesses the impact of the Supreme Court on our daily lives, looks at the results of previous appointments to the Court, and describes the Supreme Court's constitutional role

Assesses the impact of the Supreme Court on our daily lives, looks at the results of previous appointments to the Court, and describes the Supreme Court's constitutional role