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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... Supreme Court of the United States, has intervened in divisive controversies involving important issues of domestic ... supreme law of the land—and, as Chief Justice John Marshall argued in his opinion for the Supreme Court in the 1803 ...
... Supreme Court of the United States, as the ultimate court of appeal in the federal system, has exercised the power of judicial review to resolve—or, at least, attempt to resolve—hotly disputed issues of public policy. In all of these ...
... Supreme Court that repeatedly invalidated these programs on constitutional grounds. To focus, as we do in this volume, on the most important cases in which courts have intervened in major public policy conflicts by invalidating ...
... Supreme Court agreed with that proposition. However, the case turned on the procedural question of whether the congressionally enacted Judiciary Act of 1789, which Marbury cited as the source of the Supreme Court's authority to hear his ...
... Supreme Court exercised its power of judicial review sparingly. Although the Court struck down a number of state laws, it did not invalidate another significant piece of federal legislation until it intervened in the dispute over ...
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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 | |