From Publishers Weekly O'Connor, veteran associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, distills in this book the scores of talks she has given across the country and around the world in the 20 years since her accession to the high court. O'Connor, the author of the bestselling memoir Lazy B, is an enthusiast of the American legal system, reaching back to its origins in the Magna Carta and, later, in the English Privy Council, with its power to invalidate legislation. Declaring federal and state laws unconstitutional, of course, is the core of the Supreme Court's authority over this country's legal system, and O'Connor traces the exercise of that authority from the era of Chief Justice John Marshall to Brown v. Board of Education. In other chapters, O'Connor profiles Supreme Court titans such as Holmes and Taft, and reviews the long struggle to gain for women the right to vote. Elsewhere, the author suggests reforms for the jury system, extols the benefits of an independent judiciary and offers a graceful tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall. Canons of ethics prohibit judges from public comment on controversial matters likely to arise in their future cases, and a Supreme Court justice cannot reveal the dynamics of the Court's deliberations. These rules of discretion pervade O'Connor's book. Divisive (and provocative) issues such as abortion, the death penalty or affirmative action are addressed only in the broadest possible generalities. Purged of controversy, O'Connor's book is an engagingly written civics lesson, delivering a warm appreciation of legal history and principles but little light on the issues the Supreme Court confronts today.
具體描述
讀後感
作為美國曆史上首位最高法院的女性大法官，她以一位女性法律人的視野思考和探討瞭美國的法律製度設計，作者敘述較為平實，比一般翻譯過來的作品要好讀一些，或許也有翻譯的功勞。
評分恕我纔疏學淺，經曆瞭四個多月的時間，斷斷續續地終於啃完此書。當初買書的衝動和後來閱讀的樂趣用卓越到貨時間鏈接起來就是個開口嚮下的拋物綫。 看完此書，再次強烈地激發瞭本人追悔莫及之心---如果再給我一次機會，我一定認真學習英文，尤其是法律英語，要做到就像曾...
評分挺不錯的呀 以前自以為的很多觀點發現都是錯誤的 像以前認為最高法院能夠重新審查和推翻每個州法院作齣的判決。 事實是包括最高法院在內的聯邦法院隻有權力決定聯邦法律的爭議而不是州法律的爭議。
評分恕我纔疏學淺，經曆瞭四個多月的時間，斷斷續續地終於啃完此書。當初買書的衝動和後來閱讀的樂趣用卓越到貨時間鏈接起來就是個開口嚮下的拋物綫。 看完此書，再次強烈地激發瞭本人追悔莫及之心---如果再給我一次機會，我一定認真學習英文，尤其是法律英語，要做到就像曾...
評分毫無疑問,本書是精彩的。盡管在閱讀的過程中，有些語句的翻譯在我看來有些饒舌。或許是因為有關法律類的書籍總不免有這些傾嚮，亦或許與作者的Justice身份有關，還可能是因為翻譯的問題。不過總體而言，該書的翻譯還稱的上流暢。雖然涉及到紛繁復雜的法理問題，不過這並不影...
用戶評價
用於簡潔，邏輯嚴謹，內容豐富，觀點人性。非常棒
评分丹喵贈書。最後的Epilogue讀得好感動。
评分用於簡潔，邏輯嚴謹，內容豐富，觀點人性。非常棒
评分用於簡潔，邏輯嚴謹，內容豐富，觀點人性。非常棒
评分用於簡潔，邏輯嚴謹，內容豐富，觀點人性。非常棒
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