Constitutional Remedies - A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution

Understanding the impact of constitutional rights in the real world depends on understanding the law of constitutional remedies for their violation. Integrating the history, doctrine, and policy of constitutional remedy, Wells and Eaton explain how people go about trying to obtain redress for violations of their constitutional rights. Diverse issues arise when persons seek to bring a lawsuit against governments, officials, or private individuals for violation of their constitutional rights. Among them are whether the injury ought to be accorded constitutional status at all, or instead should be treated as a routine wrong, no different in principle from a traffic accident. If the case warrants constitutional status, the next issue is whether or not suit may be brought against the officer who committed the wrong or his government employer, and so on. On each of these and other issues the authors guide the reader through the complex body of doctrine, the lively case law debates, and the scholarly literature over the appropriate mix of policies and the means by which to achieve them.

List of contents

Series Foreword by Jack Stark
Foreword by Marshall S. Shapo
Introduction
History of Constitutional Remedies
Constitutional Remedies and Commentary
Conclusion
Bibliographic Essay
Index

About the author

Michael Wells, Thomas A. Eaton

Product details

• Authors: Thomas a. Eaton, Eaton Thomas A., Michael Wells
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2002
• EAN: 9780313314490
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31449-0
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Politics, Law, and Government: State and Local Government