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It was described as a great book that argued America's constitutional approach went awry, critiquing the anticanon and the strong recognition of few rights.
He's the author of the great book, How Rights Went Wrong, and he believes that America's approach to constitutional law went awry a long time ago.
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It was described as a great book that argued America's constitutional approach went awry, critiquing the anticanon and the strong recognition of few rights.
He's the author of the great book, How Rights Went Wrong, and he believes that America's approach to constitutional law went awry a long time ago.
you argue in the book that there's something more fundamental separating American courts from international peers and it's how we treat rights.
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Greene's book argued that America's constitutional law is misguided, stressing that courts recognize few rights strongly instead of many rights weakly, and it catalogued the resulting bizarre Supreme Court outcomes.
He's the author of a book called How Rights Went Wrong, and in it, he argued that America does constitutional law all wrong, that we do it in a way that other countries don't, in a way that is tearing our country apart.
You argue in the book that there's something more fundamental separating American courts from international peers, and it's how we treat rights.
This is what I spent the most time wrestling with in your book, which is whether or not there is value to the American effort, the effort we have in the way we treat the courts in this country to create a fig leaf of separate authority for the other, less democratic institution.