TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hume,Robert J.
TI  - Courthouse democracy and minority rights: same-sex marriage in the states 
SN  - 9780199982172
AV  - KF539 .H86 2013
U1  - 346.7301/68 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Same-sex marriage
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - States
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Constitutional law
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index; Promises, promises -- Understanding the impact of state supreme courts -- Early same-sex marriage decisions -- Massachusetts and beyond -- Policy initiation: the diffusion of same-sex marriage cases across the states -- Policy legitimation: evaluating the capacity of state courts to change public opinion -- Policy endurance: the enactment of state constitutional amendments prohibiting -- Same-sex marriage -- The promise of state courts
ER  -