Stephen G. Breyer

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"[This book] examines administrative procedure and policy in light of substantive policy issues, such as public health and safety, environmental protections, and the regulation of the economy. Questions, notes, and problems support fruitful analysis of Supreme Court decisions, administrative acts, and matters of contemporary debate. Features [of this book include]: revised materials on presidential appointment and removal; e-rulemaking, the Obama Administration’s transparency and openness initiatives, and new technologies; material on the Information Quality Act, midnight regulations, and guidance documents; a new section on global administrative law; [and] significant new Supreme Court decisions."--

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Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well.