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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... argument. By a vote of 7-2, the justices ruled that Scott was not, and could not be, a citizen. As a member of a race deemed to be “subordinate and inferior,” Scott had, Taney declared, “no rights or privileges but such as those who ...
... argument with herself. Together with the principal essays on the Great Cases and their legacies, our volume provides a commentary on each essay by a leading academician or public intellectual. The point of providing these commentaries ...
... argument made by former attorney general Edwin Meese III—I argue that neither Marbury nor any powerful account of constitutionalism supports the latter theories. Instead, ordinary citizens as well as our representatives have the ...
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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 | |