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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... Amendment's Due Process Clause relied on by the Supreme Court in Lochner and Roe. Walter Murphy doubts whether “originalism,” for all its intuitive appeal, can ever provide a workable interpretative approach to the sort of problem the ...
... public education to children of non-citizens illegally present in this country.2 In 1994 California's voters approved Proposition 187, an amendment to 17 CHAPTER ONE Marbury v. Madison and the Theory of Judicial Supremacy.
Robert P. George. In 1994 California's voters approved Proposition 187, an amendment to the state's constitution that, among other things, would deny a free public education to that same class of children. A federal court promptly held ...
... Amendment, which gives Congress the power “to enforce, by appropriate legislation,” the Amendment's provisions, Congress prohibited any government from substantially burdening the free exercise of religion even by a neutral law of ...
... Amendment. But Congress cannot remedy things that are not unconstitutional. Because the Court had declared that neutral laws of general applicability were not unconstitutional, there was nothing for Congress to remedy: “When the Court ...
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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 | |