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Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase
In Re Turner and Texas V. White
Häftad, 1997
342 kr
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Harold Hyman argues that in two cases - In Re Turner (1867) and Texas v. White (1869), Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase combined his abolitionist philosophy with an activist jurisprudence to help dismantle once and for all the deposed machineries of slavery and the confederancy.
Salem Witchcraft Trials
A Legal History
Häftad, 1997
312 kr
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In late 17th-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan was brought into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbours turned against neighbours and children against parents with accusations of witchcraft, and 19 people were hanged for …
Struggle for Student Rights
Tinker V. DES Moines and the 1960s
Häftad, 1997
342 kr
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The 1965 student rights case ""Tinker v. Des Moines"", raises important issues regarding First Amendment freedoms and is a precedent for both the rights of public school students and legitimate civil disobedience. This account of the case places it in the legal and historical context of the 1960s.
Lochner V.New York
Economic Regulation on Trial
Av Paul Kens
Häftad, 1998
302 kr
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Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important …
When the Nazis Came to Skokie
Freedom for Speech We Hate
Häftad, 1999
338 kr
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In the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivor--or was directly related to a survivor--of the Holocaust. These victims of terror had resettled in America expecting to lead peaceful lives free from persecution. But their safe haven was …
Pullman Case
Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America
Inbunden, 1999
506 kr
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This volume reexamines the events and personalities in the 1894 strike when the American Railway Union took action against the Pullman Palace Car Company. It also looks at related proceedings in the Chicago trial courts, and the decision which set important standards for labour injunctions.
Pullman Case
Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America
Av David Ray Papke, N. E. H. Hull
Häftad, 1999
292 kr
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When the American Railway Union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, it set into motion a chain of events whose repercussions are still felt today. The strike pitted America's largest industrial union against twenty-four railroads, paralyzed rail traffic in half the …
Lethal Judgments
Assisted Suicide and American Law
Häftad, 2000
305 kr
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In two 1997 decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide. Yet for many people the concept strikes to the heart of notions of liberty. This text examines those cases, the law surrounding the claims and the moral debate around the issue.
Bakke Case
Race, Education and Affirmative Action
Av Howard Ball
Häftad, 2000
305 kr
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Twice denied admission to a California medical school, despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Alan Bakke took his case to court. This is a review of the issues raised by this case that placed affirmative action on trial. It presents both sides of the debate.
Flag Burning and Free Speech
The Case of Texas V. Johnson
Av Robert J. Goldstein, N E H Hull
Häftad, 2000
342 kr
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When Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag, he was convicted for flag desecration under Texas law, but the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. This work examines the case and the attendant controversy over whether protection of the flag conflicts with constitutional guarantees of free speech.
Religious Freedom and Indian Rights
The Case of Oregon V. Smith
Häftad, 2001
275 kr
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The Supreme Court's controversial decision in Oregon v. Smith sharply departed from previous readings of the First Amendment's religious freedom clause and ignited a firestorm of protest. This analysis of the case shows why it continues to resonate so deeply in the American psyche.
Reconstruction and Black Suffrage
Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank
Häftad, 2001
305 kr
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On Easter Sunday in 1873, more than one hundred black men were gunned down in Grant Parish, Louisiana, for daring to assert their right to vote. Several months earlier, in Lexington, Kentucky, another black man was denied the right to vote for simply failing to pay a poll tax. Both events typified …
Clergy Malpractice in America
Nally V. Grace Community Church of the Valley
Häftad, 2001
305 kr
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Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley was America's first case to allege ""clergy malpractice,"" one that challenged the freedom of religious leaders to counsel their parishioners. The case is as much a story of modern America as it is an account of courtroom proceedings.
Vietnam War on Trial
The My Lai Massacre and Court-martial of Lieutenant Calley
Häftad, 2013
400 kr
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The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply divided over a controversial war. This work is a retelling of the My Lai story through the prism of the law. One of the most highly publicized trials of …
Race and Redistricting
The Shaw-Cromartie Cases
Häftad, 2002
305 kr
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In 1993-2001, three cases in North Carolina went before the Supreme Court to decide how far a state could establish voting districts along racial lines. This text explores how the Court addressed the constitutionality of redistricting within the contexts of civil rights and partisan politics.
Great New York Conspiracy of 1741
Slavery, Crime and Colonial Law
Häftad, 2003
556 kr
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Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspiracy spread in the city, leading to the conviction and execution of over 70 slaves. This text retells the dramatic story of these landmark trials.
Yoder Case
Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights
Häftad, 2003
342 kr
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In the late 1960s an Amish community considered state education detrimental to its own values. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder to court, a legal battle of landmark proportions followed. This volume is a complete and compelling account of the Yoder case.
Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye V. City of Hialeah
Inbunden, 2004
688 kr
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The Santeria religion of Cuba - the Way of the Saints - mixes West African Yoruba culture with Catholicism. Similar to Haitian voodoo, Santeria has long practiced animal sacrifice in certain rites. But when Cuban immigrants brought those rituals to Florida, local authorities were suddenly …
Murder in Mississippi
United States V. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Av Howard Ball
Inbunden, 2004
553 kr
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Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney - idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like …
Murder in Mississippi
United States V. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Av Howard Ball
Häftad, 2004
305 kr
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Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney - idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like …
Sexual Harassment and the Law
The Mechelle Vinson Case
Häftad, 2004
305 kr
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Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act may have outlawed sex discrimination, but it did not address the sexual harassment of women in the workplace - behavior that courts did not deem illegal until well into the era of the modern civil rights and women's movements. Mechelle Vinson's lawsuit against …
Griswold V. Connecticut
Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy
Inbunden, 2005
619 kr
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Privacy isn't even mentioned in the US Constitution. It took the Supreme Court's ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) to bestow constitutional protection upon this right. John Johnson's critique of Griswold - which observes its 40th anniversary on June 7, 2005 - reminds us once again of its …
Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson
Puritans Divided
Häftad, 2005
352 kr
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Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous Englishwoman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship, author of the highly acclaimed Making Heretics, provides a startlingly new and fresh account of her …
Confederacy on Trial
The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861
Häftad, 2005
342 kr
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In the annals of Civil War history, one dispute remains unsettled: was the United States waging war against another nation or putting down an internal rebellion? In 1861 three legal battles put this question to the test. As Mark Weitz reveals, these proceedings were instrumental in debating and …
Nazi Saboteurs on Trial
A Military Tribunal and American Law
Av Louis Fisher
Häftad, 2005
305 kr
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In 1942, eight Germans landed on US shores bent on sabotage. Louis Fisher chronicles their capture, trial, and punishment in order to examine the extent to which procedural rights are suspended in time of war. He analyzes the Supreme Court decision Ex parte Quirin (1942), reconstructing the rush to …
Slaughterhouse Cases
Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment
Av Ronald M. Labbe, Jonathan Lurie
Häftad, 2005
342 kr
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, sought to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves; but its first important test did not arise until five years later. That test centered on a vitriolic dispute among the white butchers of mid-Reconstruction New Orleans. The …
Mapp Versus Ohio
Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
Inbunden, 2006
921 kr
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Although she came to be known as merely ""that girl with the dirty books,"" Dollree Mapp was a poor but proud black woman who defied a predominantly white police force by challenging the legality of its search-and-seizure methods. Her case, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, remains hotly …
M'Culloch V. Maryland
Securing a Nation
Häftad, 2006
305 kr
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Federalism - including its meanings and limits - remains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law. To fully understand its importance, we must turn to a landmark decision nearly two centuries old. M'Culloch v. Maryland (1819) is widely regarded as the Supreme Court's most …
Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
Inbunden, 2006
1171 kr
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When the United States took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam following the Spanish-American War, it was unclear to what degree these islands were actually part of the U.S. and, in particular, whether the Constitution applied fully, or even in part, to their citizens. By …
Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
Häftad, 2006
396 kr
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When the United States took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam following the Spanish-American War, it was unclear to what degree these islands were actually part of the U.S. and, in particular, whether the Constitution applied fully, or even in part, to their citizens. By …
