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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... slavery in the 1857 case of 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 ...
... slavery , even in federal territories , was considered by critics of the Court to be an outrageous usurpa- tion of congressional legislative authority ; and it set the stage , in the view of many historians , for civil war . In his ...
... slavery and establishing voting rights and other basic protections for the former slaves and their descendants , Congress enacted civil rights legislation to prohibit racial discrimination in public accommodations . The Supreme Court ...
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