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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... citizen of neither the state of Missouri nor the United States of America; therefore he remained Sandford's property despite of his having been resident in free territory. In a now infamous opinion by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney ...
... citizens more fully and critically to understand what is at stake in contemporary disputes over the scope of judicial power. These essays and commentaries are based on lectures presented by the authors in a series on Great Cases in ...
... citizens as well as our representatives have the authority and the responsibility to assess the constitutionality of proposed and enacted legislation. Having done so, we may shape our conduct according to our own understanding of the ...
... citizens. The second reading, however, does treat the courts and not just the Constitution as supreme: “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department—and no one else—to say what the law is. Once we say what the law ...
... citizen.” Using language not that much different from the Court's in Cooper v. Aaron, Douglas said that when the courts resolved the questions, that was the end of it: “When such decisions have been made, they become the law of the land ...
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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 | |