Great Cases in Constitutional LawRobert P. George Princeton University Press, 2016 M03 4 - 216 páginas Slavery, segregation, abortion, workers' rights, the power of the courts. These issues have been at the heart of the greatest constitutional controversies in American history. And in this concise and thought-provoking volume, some of today's most distinguished legal scholars and commentators explain for a general audience how five landmark Supreme Court cases centered on those controversies shaped the country's destiny and continue to affect us even now. The book is a profound exploration of the Supreme Court's importance to America's social and political life. It is also, as many of the contributors show, an intriguing reflection of what some have seen as an important trend in legal scholarship away from an uncritical belief in the essentially benign nature of judicial power. |
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... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data George, Robert P. Great cases in constitutional law / edited by Robert P. George, p. cm. — (New forum books) Includes index. ISBN 0-691-04951-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-691-04952-1 (pbk ...
... Congress. The most dramatic judicial actions, however, have involved the invalidation of acts of Congress and state legislatures by courts deeming them to be unconstitutional. Rulings of the latter sort are particularly significant ...
... Congress could not expand the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction, the “Great Chief Justice” managed to invalidate a piece of federal legislation without issuing an order that Congress or the president could find any effective way of ...
... might choose to grant [him].” As for his residence in free territory, the Court held that the Missouri Compromise, under the terms of which Congress had admitted Missouri as a slave state but prohibited slavery 7 ROBERT P. GEORGE.
... Congress enacted, and Lincoln signed, legislation inconsistent with the holding in Dred Scott. Then, after the war, the Dred Scott decision was formally undone by the ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, abolishing ...
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Marbury v Madison | |
CHAPTER THREE Dred Scott v Sandford and Its Legacy | |
Dred Scott v Sandford | |
CHAPTER FIVE Lochner v New York and the Cast of Our Laws | |
Lochner v New York | |
CHAPTER SEVEN Brown v Board of Education and Originalism | |
Brown v Board of Education | |
Speaking the Unspeakable | |
Roe v Wade | |
Index | |