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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... school financing. In our time, courts are, by any account, significant political actors. Judicial power has expanded far beyond what anyone imagined possible when Mr. Marbury went to court to force Mr. Madison to deliver his commission ...
... schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Segregation in schools and other public institutions had long been practiced throughout the southern states and in certain other parts of the country; though ...
... school segregation makes it today a kind of touchstone of legitimate constitutional interpretation. In many circles, a theory of constitutional interpretation is simply disqualified if it cannot support the decision in Brown. Yet, Earl ...
... School administrators, for example, may have to ask about the citizenship status of the parents of children who attempt to enroll in their schools. They are supposed to refuse to admit children affected by Proposition 187. Would a school ...
... school desegregation case of Cooper v. Aaron.6 Four years earlier, Brown v. Board of Education had held school segregation to be unconstitutional. The Court then held that states had to desegregate their schools “with all deliberate ...
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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 | |