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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... position advanced by Will (and others), Dworkin maintains that judges' moral views about abortion and its legal regulation rightly figure in their rulings which give specific content to “abstract” constitutional rights, such as the ...
... another noteworthy recent defense of the “pro-choice” and critique of the “pro-life” position, see Judith Jarvis Thomson, “Abortion,” Boston Review, Summer 1995. ifr CHAPTER ONE Marbury v. Madison and the Theory of 16 INTRODUCTION.
... positions, and departing president John Adams moved to fill the posts. The appropriate documents were prepared and signed. Marshall, as secretary of state, had the responsibility of delivering these commissions to the new judges. But ...
... position on controlling the judiciary. In what historians have come to regard as a political masterstroke, John Marshall, in his capacity of chief justice, managed to criticize the Jeffersonian program without forcing a direct ...
... position than self-interest. In 1958 the Supreme Court faced a challenge to its authority in the Little Rock, Arkansas, school desegregation case of Cooper v. Aaron.6 Four years earlier, Brown v. Board of Education had held school ...
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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 | |