Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to BrownUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010 M02 15 - 308 páginas Many have questioned FDR's record on race, suggesting that he had the opportunity but not the will to advance the civil rights of African Americans. Kevin J. McMahon challenges this view, arguing instead that Roosevelt's administration played a crucial role in the Supreme Court's increasing commitment to racial equality—which culminated in its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. McMahon shows how FDR's attempt to strengthen the presidency and undermine the power of conservative Southern Democrats dovetailed with his efforts to seek racial equality through the federal courts. By appointing a majority of rights-based liberals deferential to presidential power, Roosevelt ensured that the Supreme Court would be receptive to civil rights claims, especially when those claims had the support of the executive branch. |
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... president's skills as a party leader and leg- islative coalition - builder will come into play since groups focused on “ judi- cial ” concerns will likely pressure him to pursue legislative action for quick relief . If the president ...
... president's skills as a party leader and leg- islative coalition - builder will come into play since groups focused on “ judi- cial ” concerns will likely pressure him to pursue legislative action for quick relief . If the president ...
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... president's legislative approach , then , his judicial policy will involve the management of intraparty cleavages . Presidents also use their judicial policy as a means for implementing their individual constitutional visions . As noted ...
... president's legislative approach , then , his judicial policy will involve the management of intraparty cleavages . Presidents also use their judicial policy as a means for implementing their individual constitutional visions . As noted ...
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... president called for the end of the South's “ feudal ” system . He then noted that there was “ little difference between the feudal system and the Fascist system . If you believe in the one , you lean to the other . ” 2 Four years later ...
... president called for the end of the South's “ feudal ” system . He then noted that there was “ little difference between the feudal system and the Fascist system . If you believe in the one , you lean to the other . ” 2 Four years later ...
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... President Nixon. On the domestic scene, Nixon stressed that “there is probably no more important legacy that a President of the United States can leave . . than his appointments to the Supreme Court.”64 Second in im- portance only to ...
... President Nixon. On the domestic scene, Nixon stressed that “there is probably no more important legacy that a President of the United States can leave . . than his appointments to the Supreme Court.”64 Second in im- portance only to ...
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... president's judicial policy. Clearly, the wisdom of a president's individ- ual choices will affect the endurance of his judicial legacy. In other words, a president situated to reconstruct the courts may miss or misuse the oppor- tunity ...
... president's judicial policy. Clearly, the wisdom of a president's individ- ual choices will affect the endurance of his judicial legacy. In other words, a president situated to reconstruct the courts may miss or misuse the oppor- tunity ...
Contenido
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RightsCentered Liberalism and Legal Realism in the Early New Deal Years | 24 |
The Modern Presidency and the Enemies of Institutional Reform | 61 |
The Politics of Creating the Roosevelt Court | 97 |
Southern Democracy Lynch Law and the Roosevelt Justice Department | 144 |
Truman Eisenhower and the Civil Rights Decisions | 177 |
The Road the Court Trod | 203 |
Notes | 223 |
Works Cited | 269 |
Index | 287 |
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Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown Kevin J. McMahon Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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Página 251 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Página 252 - District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both...
Página 151 - Misuse of power, possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with the authority of state law, is action taken 'under color of
Página 258 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Página 45 - Extraordinary conditions may call for extraordinary remedies. But the argument necessarily stops short of an attempt to justify action which lies outside the sphere of constitutional authority. Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power.
Página 184 - ... descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in...
Página 255 - The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor anywhere in the world.
Página 75 - The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law, but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it.
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The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 Mark V. Tushnet Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
Atlas of Slavery and Civil Rights: An Annotated Chronicle of the Passage ... Nicholas J Santoro Vista previa limitada - 2006 |