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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... judgments for the contrary judgments embodied in law by democratically accountable legislators. From a political scientist's point of view, however, judicial review places in the hands of judges a potentially awesome form of what can ...
... judgment about the proper scope of judicial power. Marbury v. Madison is often cited as the case that established the power of the courts to invalidate legislation. Although some scholars believe that judicial review was exercised by ...
... had argued that the judiciary is “the least dangerous branch” of government, possessing “neither force, nor will, but merely judgment.”3 To us today, these words seem quaint—even naive—in view of the entrenched 6 INTRODUCTION.
... judgment as to the limits of its constitutional power. And meaningful federal civil rights legislation was put off until the middle of the next century. In 1905, the Supreme Court inaugurated a thirty-two-year period of what would come ...
... judgment to the public) ruled that racial segregation in American public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Segregation in schools and other public institutions had long been practiced throughout ...
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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 | |