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Supreme decisions : great constitutional cases and their impact /
Compellingly written, accessible, and interpretive, Melvin I. Urofsky's stories of major Supreme Court cases and the impact of each ruling on American constitutional law make a readable book for every student.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The case of the disappointed office-seeker: Marbury v Madison : The Judiciary Act of 1801 and the midnight judges ; William Marbury ; The first step- repeal of the 1801 Judiciary Act ; Marbury v Madison ; The politics and logic of Marshall opinion ; The Republicans continue their attack ; The impeachment of Justice Chase ; Defining treason ; Aftermath
- 2. The case of the larcenous cashier: McCulloch v Maryland : Interpreting the Constitution: Jefferson versus Hamilton ; James McCulloch- cashier extraordinaire ; Arguments before the court ; Decision ; The states rights attack ; John Marshall defense ; Citizen McCulloch
- 3. The case of the rival steamboat operators: Gibbons v Ogden : Mr. Fulton steamboat ; The steamboat monopoly ; Enter Gibbons and Ogden ; Creating a question for the federal courts ; Arguing before the Supreme Court ; The decision ; The legacy of the case.
- 4. The case of the missionary to the Cherokee: Worcester v Georgia : Setting the stage ; Taking Indian land ; Challenging Georgia law in the Supreme Court ; Samuel Worcester goes to Georgia ; The Georgia law before the Supreme Court ; The failure of law and a political compromise ; Cherokee removal ; Aftermath
- 5. The case of the zealous slave catcher: Prigg v Pennsylvania : The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 ; Personal liberty laws ; Edward Prigg and Margaret Morgan ; The Supreme Court rules ; After Prigg: George Latimer ; The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- 6. The case of the slave who would be free: Dred Scott v Sandford : Dred Scott and his travels ; The case in the Missouri state courts-the growing storm over slavery ; The Compromise of 1850 ; Dred Scott in the Missouri Supreme Court ; A diversity case- or not ; Before the Supreme Court ; The self-inflicted wound
- 7. The case of the antiwar agitator: ex parte Milligan : The making of a copperhead ; Opposing the war ; Military trial ; Ex parte Merryman ; Ex parte Vallandigham ; Arguing the case ; The court decision ; Milligan in history ; Milligan after the case.
- 8. The case of the New Orleans butchers: The slaughterhouse cases : A simple health regulation in an unhealthy city ; The butchers fight back ; Defining rights ; In the Louisiana courts ; Justice Joseph Bradley, on circuit ; Before the U.S. Supreme Court ; A closely divided court decides ; Aftermath
- 9. The case of the woman who wanted to be a lawyer: Bradwell v Illinois : Myra Bradwell ; The Chicago legal news ; The nascent women movement ; A history of legal discrimination ; Small doors in the wall ; A person of good character- but not eligible ; On appeal to the Supreme Court ; The decision ; Moving on, and triumphing
- 10. The case of the devout bigamist: Reynolds v United States : Mormon beliefs ; The growing opposition to the faith ; George Reynolds ; The test case ; The Supreme Court decides: belief versus practice ; Reaction to the decision ; The persecution and prosecution of the Mormons ; The end of plural marriage ; Continuing questions ; George Reynolds last years.
- 11. The case of the reluctant strike leader: In re Debs : George M. Pullman and the palace car ; Pullman, Illinois ; Eugene Victor Debs ; The American Railway Union ; The Pullman workers strike ; The boycott ; Violence ; Judge Grosscup issues an injunction ; The trial of Eugene V. Debs ; The high court rules
- 12. The case of the almost-white traveler: Plessy v Ferguson : The freedmen after the Civil War ; The beginnings of Jim Crow ; Challenging the separate car act ; Enter Homer Adolphe Plessy ; The separate car act in the courts ; The Supreme Court decides ; Justice Harlan's dissent ; Plessy's bitter fruits ; Coda
- 13. The case of the stubborn baker: Lochner v New York : Industrialization and protective legislation ; Substantive due process versus the police power ; Bakeshops at the turn of the century ; Trying to clean up the bakeshops ; Joseph Lochner challenges the law The Supreme Court hands down a surprise decision ; Locher's aftermath
- 14. The case of the gentle anarchist: Abrams v United States : World War I and speech ; Jacob Abrams opposes the war ; Theories of speech and the bad tendency ; Schnenck and "clear and present danger" ; Holmes learns from his critics ; Abrams: fighting faiths ; Reaction Holmes's dissent: pro and con ; The sad end of Jacob Abrams.
- 15. The case of the high-tech bootlegger: Olmstead v United States : The road to the noble experiment ; Prohibition in practice ; The Olmstead ring in Seattle ; The meaning of the fourth amendment ; Chief justice Taft opinion ; Justices Butler and Homes dissent ; The Brandeis dissent and the right to privacy ; Roy Olmstead reforms
- 16. The four horsemen last ride: The new deal cases : The great depression ; The court and state measures to combat the depression ; The new deal begins ; Going off the gold standard ; The national industrial recovery act ; The Schechter case ; The new deal farm program and the court ; The attack on the new deal continues ; The court-packing plan ; Elsie Parrish wants her money
- 17. The case of the conscientious schoolchildren: The flag-salute cases : Lillian Gobitas acts on her faith ; The witnesses in federal courts ; The witnesses in the high court: round I ; The violent response to the decision ; Expanding the boundaries of the first amendment ; The high court: round II
- 18. The case of too-long-delayed equality: Brown v Board of Education : Linda Brown and the other Plaintiffs ; From Plessy to Brown ; The arguments ; The decision ; The response ; Remedies and Brown II ; Moving- but slowly ; Ike and little rock ; The beginnings of desegregation
- 19. The case of the robust press: New York Times v Sullivan : Merton Nachman reads the newspaper ; The struggle for civil rights in Alabama ; L.B. Sullivan and law enforcement in Montgomery ; The sit-in movements comes to Alabama ; "Heed their rising voices" ; A brief history of libel law ; The Sullivan case ; The Supreme Court and the press clause ; "Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open."
- 20. The case of the uninformed rapist: Miranda v Arizona : The victim; Ernesto Miranda and his confession ; The due process revolution begins: Gideon v Wainwright ; The fifth amendment "great right" ; Connecting the fifth and sixth amendments: Massiah ; Strengthening the connection: Escobedo ; "You have the right to remain silent" ; The success of Miranda ; Refining Miranda ; Miranda end
- 21. The case that aroused great passions: Roe v Wade : Abortion legislation: a brief history ; Growing support for abortion rights ; Establishing the right to privacy ; Sarah Weddington meets Norma McCorvey ; Jane Roe wins round one ; Abortion in the Supreme Court before Roe ; Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton ; The response to the decisions ; Aftermath
- 22. Coming out of the closet and into the courts: The gay rights cases : Michael Hardwick is arrested ; Hardwick goes to court- charting unfamiliar territory ; The gay rights movement ; Hardwick in the Supreme Court ; The court tries to find its way ; A ray of hope- Romer v Evans ; John Geddes Lawrence is arrested ; The Supreme Court decides ; The aftermath of Lawrence
- 23. The Constitution besieged: The war on terror cases : Rounding up suspected aliens ; Zacarias Moussaoui ; Enemy combatants ; The prisoners of Guantanamo ; The Supreme Court issues a warning ; Hamdan v Rumsfeld ; Another rebuke from the court.