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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... judgments for the contrary judgments embodied in law by democratically accountable legislators . From a political sci- entist's point of view , however , judicial review places in the hands of judges a potentially awesome form of what ...
... judgment about the proper scope of judi- cial power . Marbury v . Madison is often cited as the case that established the power of the courts to invalidate legislation . Although some schol- ars believe that judicial review was ...
... . Alexander Hamilton had argued that the judiciary is " the least dangerous branch " of government , pos- sessing " neither force , nor will , but merely judgment . " 3 To us today , these words seem quaint — even naive — 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 pe- riod of what ...
... judgment to the public ) ruled that racial segregation in American public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . Seg- regation in schools and other public institutions had long been practiced ...
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