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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... Dred Scott v. Sandford and Its Legacy Cass R. Sunstein Chapter Four Politics and Judicial Responsibility: Dred Scott v. Sandford James M. McPherson Chapter Five Lochner v. New York and the Cast of Our Laws Hadley Arkes Chapter Six The ...
... Dred Scott v. Sandford. Scott was a slave who had been taken by Sandford, his master, into the free state of Illinois and then into free sections of the Louisiana Territory before returning with him to Missouri. Scott then brought a ...
... Dred Scott. Then, after the war, the Dred Scott decision was formally undone by the ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, abolishing slavery and establishing de jure the full citizenship rights of all Americans ...
... Dred Scott damaged, but did not destroy, the authority of the Supreme Court. Not long after the Union victory in the Civil War and the ratification of constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and establishing voting rights and other ...
... Dred Scott. Just as the Dred Scott decision deprived blacks of any legal standing or effective right to protection under law, the ruling in Roe robs unborn potential victims of abortion of precisely the same rights. And it deprives “we ...
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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 | |