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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... Theory of Judicial Supremacy Mark Tushnet Chapter Two “Despotism in Some Form”: Marbury v. Madison Jeremy Waldron Chapter Three Dred Scott v. Sandford and Its Legacy Cass R. Sunstein Chapter Four Politics and Judicial Responsibility ...
... theory analyze and consider the legacy of cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States, as the ultimate court of appeal in the federal system, has exercised the power of judicial review to resolve—or, at least, attempt to ...
... theory.” It therefore did not matter, as far as he was concerned, whether he or other judges approved or disapproved of the theory animating New York's limitation of working hours. The matter was one for legislative, not judicial ...
... theory of constitutional interpretation is simply disqualified if it cannot support the decision in Brown. Yet, Earl Maltz argues in his contribution to our volume, it is difficult— perhaps impossible—to justify Brown on a theory that ...
... theory, see the Introduction to his volume of essays entided Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996). For another noteworthy recent defense of the “pro-choice” and ...
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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 | |