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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... debate over the scope of judicial review is not in principle an ideologically partisan one. Although an unprincipled approach to the subject would countenance sweeping judicial power when judges are likely to serve one's own political ...
... essay by a leading academician or public intellectual. The point of providing these commentaries is not to stage “debates,” but to offer another perspective, or focus on a different issue, or set 13 ROBERT P. GEORGE.
... debate over abortion—either to invalidate anti-abortion legislation (as the Supreme Court did in Roe) or to require it. The matter is, he maintains, one to be resolved legislatively rather than judicially. Thus, he regards the decision ...
... Debating Democrat Stephen Douglas during their 1858 campaign for the Senate, Lincoln replied to Douglas's effort to defuse the slavery controversy by relying on the Court's decision. Douglas said that the courts were created “so that ...
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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 | |