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Supreme decisions. Great constitutional cases and their impact. Volume 2 : Volume 2, Since 1896 /
Compellingly written, accessible, and interpretive, Melvin I. Urofsky & rsquo;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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Boulder, CO :
Westview Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reviewer Acknowledgments; Introduction; 12. The Case of the Almost-White Traveler: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); 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; Cases Cited; For Further Reading; 13. The Case of the Stubborn Baker: Lochner v. New York (1905); Industrialization and Protective Legislation; Substantive Due Process versus the Police Power; Bakeshops at the Turn of the Century.
- Trying to Clean Up the BakeshopsJoseph Lochner Challenges the Law; The Supreme Court Hands Down a Suprise Decision; Lochner's Aftermath; Cases Cited; For Further Reading; 14. The Case of the Gentle Anarchist: Abrams v. United States (1919); World War I and Speech; Jacob Abrams Opposes the War; Theories of Speech and the Bad Tendency; Schenck and "Clear and Present Danger"; Holmes Learns from His Critics; Abrams: Fighting Faiths; Reaction to Holmes's Dissent: Pro and Con; The Sad End of Jacob Abrams; Cases Cited; For Further Reading.
- 15. The Case of the High-Tech Bootlegger: Olmstead v. United States (1928)The Road to the Noble Experiment; Prohibition in Practice; The Olmstead Ring in Seattle; The Meaning of the Fourth Amendment; Chief Justice Taft's Opinion; Justices Butler and Holmes Dissent; The Brandeis Dissent and the Right of Privacy; Roy Olmstead Reforms; Cases Cited; For Further Reading; 16. The Four Horsemen's Last Ride: The New Deal Cases (1930s); 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 CaseThe New Deal Farm Program and the Court; The Attack on the New Deal Continues; The Court-Packing Plan; Elsie Parrish Wants Her Money; Cases Cited; For Further Reading; 17. The Case of the Conscientious Schoolchildren: The Flag-Salute Cases (1940 and 1943); 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; Aftermath; Cases Cited; For Further Reading.
- 18. The case of Too-Long-Delayed Equality: Brown v. Board of Education (1954 and 1955)Linda Brown and the Other Paintiffs; 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; Cases Cited; For Further Reading; 19. The Case of the Robust Press: New York Times v. Sullivan (1964); Merton Nachman Reads the Newspaper; The Struggle for Civil Rights in Alabama; L.B. Sullivan and Law Enforcement in Montgomery; The Sit-in Movement Comes to Alabama; "Heed Their Rising Voices."