Great Cases in Constitutional LawRobert P. George Princeton University Press, 2000 M03 19 - 206 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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... Dred Scott v . Sandford and Its Legacy Cass R. Sunstein 64 CHAPTER FOUR Politics and Judicial Responsibility : Dred Scott v . Sandford James M. McPherson 90 CHAPTER FIVE Lochner v . New York and the Cast of Our Laws Hadley Arkes 94 ...
... Dred Scott v . Sandford . Scott was a slave who had been taken by Sandford , his master , into the free state of Illinois and then into free sections of the Louisiana Terri- tory before returning with him to Missouri . Scott then ...
... Dred Scott . Then , after the war , the Dred Scott decision was formally undone by the ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments , abolishing slavery and establishing de jure the full citizenship rights of all Americans ...
... Dred Scott damaged , but did not destroy , the authority of the Supreme Court . Not long after the Union victory in the Civil War and the ratification of constitu- tional amendments abolishing slavery and establishing voting rights and ...
... Dred Scott . Just as the Dred Scott decision deprived blacks of any legal standing or effective right to protection under law , the rul- ing in Roe robs unborn potential victims of abortion of precisely the same rights . And it deprives ...
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