{"product_id":"supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-and-paul-m-collins-9781107039704","title":"Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change","description":"Before Supreme Court nominees are allowed take their place on the high Court, they must face a moment of democratic reckoning by appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Despite the potential this holds for public input into the direction of legal change, the hearings are routinely derided as nothing but empty rituals and political grandstanding. In this book, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present a contrarian view that uses both empirical data and stories culled from more than seventy years of transcripts to demonstrate that the hearings are a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change. As such, they are one of the ways in which \"We the People\" take ownership of the Constitution by examining the core constitutional values of those permitted to interpret it on our behalf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul M. Collins, Lori A. Ringhand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107039703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107039704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2014","brand":"Paul M. Collins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120799117567,"sku":"9781107039704","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea6cd9b3-5e44-441e-afed-b7758ba9f014.jpg?v=1687416350","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-and-paul-m-collins-9781107039704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}