Background
Nagel, Robert Forder was born on January 17, 1947 in Dover, Delaware, United States. Son of William George and Ethel Marion (Forder) Nagel.
(This original work is an unusual effort to relate modern ...)
This original work is an unusual effort to relate modern constitutional politics to the moral character of American culture. Writing in non-technical language, Nagel demonstrates how judicial decisions embody wider social tendencies toward moral evasiveness, privatization, and opportunism. He shows that constitutional interpretation is often used to stifle political disagreement and, ultimately, to censor our own beliefs and traditions. The discussion ranges over such controversial topics as political correctness on the campus and in the case law, resistance to constitutional rights like abortion, the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork, and judicial decisions on such issues as pornography, flag-burning, gay rights, school prayer, and school desegregation. The analysis crosses conventional political and philosophical lines. Nagel sees fundamental similarities between liberal theorists like Ronald Dworkin and conservatives like Bork. He traces judicial arrogance to the ambitious doctrinalist, William Brennan, but also to the cautious incrementalist, John Marshall Harlan. He describes the highest rituals of legality as re-enactments of the same cultural deficiencies that cause concern for the rule of law, and he suggests that real protection for legal values lies in self-confident politics. Clearly written and forcefully argued, Judicial Power and American Character is an audacious examination of judicial power as an integral part of an increasingly anxious and intolerant culture. It will be of great importance to law professors, lawyers and judges, political scientists, and educated citizens interested in constitutional interpretation, the phenomenon of "political correctness", and the possibility of moral decline.
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(In this critique of the legitimacy and methodology of leg...)
In this critique of the legitimacy and methodology of legal interpretation, the author describes the intellectual instincts behind the American reliance on the power of judicial review. He addresses the basic constitutional issues of free speech, federalism and equal protection.
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(This work examines judicial power as an integral part of ...)
This work examines judicial power as an integral part of America's increasingly anxious and intolerant society. Nagel argues that judicial decisions are often an effort to stifle disagreement and to censor important beliefs and important traditions. Covering controversial topics, the analysis crosses conventional political and philosophic lines.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FDVG0KA/?tag=2022091-20
Nagel, Robert Forder was born on January 17, 1947 in Dover, Delaware, United States. Son of William George and Ethel Marion (Forder) Nagel.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1968. Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1972.
Bar: Pennsylvania 1972, Colorado 1982, United States Court Appeals (3d circuit) 1974, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1983. Deputy attorney general Department Justice, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1972-1975. Associate professor of law U. Colorado, Boulder, 1975-1981, professor, 1981.
Consultant Indiana Petroleum Association American, Advisory Commision on intergovernmental
Relations.
(In this critique of the legitimacy and methodology of leg...)
(This original work is an unusual effort to relate modern ...)
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Married Prudence Elizabeth Brown Nagel, September 5, 1970. Children: David, Andrew, Rebecca, Sarah.