Richard C. Cortner – författare
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5 produkter
Iron Horse and the Constitution
The Railroads and the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
Inbunden, 1993
981 kr
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This is the first in-depth analysis of American railroad litigation from the 1880s to 1910 that led to landmark decisions by the Supreme Court, fundamentally altering the meaning of due process in American constitutional law and establishing a basic power of the federal courts to restrict state …
Kingfish and the Constitution
Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America
Inbunden, 1996
1098 kr
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The Kingfish and the Constitution is an in-depth analysis of the poisonous relationship that evolved between Huey Kingfish Long, legendary governor of Louisiana, and the state's daily newspapers. Long's political battle over the newspaper tax in the Louisiana legislature in 1934 and the subsequent …
Civil Rights and Public Accommodations
The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases
Inbunden, 2001
578 kr
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The struggle for civil rights in America was fought at the lunch counter as well as in the streets. It ultimately found victory in the halls of government - but, as Richard Cortner reveals, only through a creative use of congressional power and critical judicial decisions. Title II of the 1964 …
Scottsboro Case in Mississippi
The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi
Häftad, 2005
357 kr
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This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black …
