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Truman and the Steel Seizure Case
The Limits of Presidential Power
Av Maeva Marcus
Häftad, 1994
352 kr
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Government seizure of the nation’s strikebound steel mills on 8 April 1952 stands as one of President Harry S Truman’s most controversial actions, representing an unprecedented use of presidential power. On 8 June 1952 the United States Supreme Court invalidated Truman’s order with its monumental …
Progressive Constitutionalism
Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amemdment
Inbunden, 1994
1405 kr
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The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law as well as immunity from laws that deprive them of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. In Progressive Constitutionalism, Robin West develops an interpretation of this amendment that contrasts with the …
Year in the Life of the Supreme Court
Häftad, 1995
500 kr
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Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court-acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American people, but the …
Violence As Obscenity
Limiting the Media's First Amendment Protection
Häftad, 1996
518 kr
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This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected by the …
Against the Law
Av Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
353 kr
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A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional …
Only One Place of Redress
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Inbunden, 2001
639 kr
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In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the …
Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent
Av H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel
Häftad, 2003
651 kr
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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."-Amendment II, United States Constitution The Second Amendment is regularly invoked by opponents of gun control, but H. Richard Uviller and William G. …
Beyond Repair?
America's Death Penalty
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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Can the death penalty be administered in a just way-without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists …
Constitutional Deliberation in Congress
The Impact of Judicial Review in a Separated System
Häftad, 2004
314 kr
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In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of …
Year at the Supreme Court
Av Neal Devins, Davison M. Douglas
Häftad, 2004
500 kr
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The United States Supreme Court’s 2002–03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activist-the Court that helped decide the 2000 presidential election and struck down thirty-one federal statutes since 1995-issued a set of …
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy
Av Peter F. Lau
Häftad, 2004
404 kr
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Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and …
Constitution in Wartime
Beyond Alarmism and Complacency
Av Mark Tushnet
Häftad, 2005
353 kr
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Most recent discussion of the United States Constitution and war-both the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq-has been dominated by two diametrically opposed views: the alarmism of those who see many current policies as portending gross restrictions on American civil liberties, and the complacency …
Congress and the Constitution
Av Neal Devins, Keith Whittington
Häftad, 2005
353 kr
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For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress’s capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate. This intensified judicial scrutiny …
Year in the Life of the Supreme Court
Inbunden, 1995
1213 kr
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Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court-acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American people, but the …
Against the Law
Av Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1162 kr
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A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional …
Federal Appointments Process
A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
Inbunden, 2001
1793 kr
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Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the …
Free Speech, the People's Darling Privilege
Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History
Inbunden, 2000
1157 kr
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Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through …
Beyond Repair?
America's Death Penalty
Inbunden, 2002
1263 kr
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Can the death penalty be administered in a just way-without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists …
Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent
Av H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel
Inbunden, 2003
1358 kr
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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."-Amendment II, United States Constitution The Second Amendment is regularly invoked by opponents of gun control, but H. Richard Uviller and William G. …
Federal Appointments Process
A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
Häftad, 2003
440 kr
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Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the …
Constitutional Deliberation in Congress
The Impact of Judicial Review in a Separated System
Inbunden, 2004
1136 kr
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In Constitutional Deliberation in Congress J. Mitchell Pickerill analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court’s constitutional decisions on Congressional debates and statutory language. Based on a thorough examination of how Congress responds to key Court rulings and strategizes in anticipation of …
Year at the Supreme Court
Av Neal Devins, Davison M. Douglas
Inbunden, 2004
1444 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The United States Supreme Court’s 2002–03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activist-the Court that helped decide the 2000 presidential election and struck down thirty-one federal statutes since 1995-issued a set of …
Constitution in Wartime
Beyond Alarmism and Complacency
Av Mark Tushnet
Inbunden, 2005
1162 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Most recent discussion of the United States Constitution and war-both the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq-has been dominated by two diametrically opposed views: the alarmism of those who see many current policies as portending gross restrictions on American civil liberties, and the complacency …
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy
Av Peter F. Lau
Inbunden, 2004
1341 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and …
Congress and the Constitution
Av Neal Devins, Keith Whittington
Inbunden, 2005
1213 kr
Tillfälligt slut
For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress’s capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate. This intensified judicial scrutiny …
