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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... 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 CHAPTER SIX The Substance of Process : Lochner v . New York Donald Drakeman ...
... Wade : Speaking the Unspeakable Jean Bethke Elshtain 175 CHAPTER TEN Judicial Power and Abortion Politics : Roe v . Wade George Will 192 Index 201 HADLEY ARKES is Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American vi CONTENTS.
... Politics at Princeton University . Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago . Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton ...
... political sci- entist's point of view , however , judicial review places in the hands of judges a potentially awesome form of what can only be de- scribed as political power . Interpretations of the Constitution by judges , however ...
... political agenda , and condemn it when they are not , no one can securely believe that broader or narrower understandings of the scope of judicial authority will serve one's partisan interests in the long run . Today's issues may not be ...
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