How American judges interpret the Bill of Rights

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1994

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Dorsen, Norman

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Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University

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American courts have considerable power to affect government by exercising the power to invalidate, and thus render inoperative, Federal and State statutes or the executive acts of Federal and State officials (including the President himself) which they consider to be in conflict with a provision of the U.S. Constitution.

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Civil rights, United States, Interpretation and construction, Constitutional amendments

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