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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, explains how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitutional powers and how we the people should take that power back. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated,
2019.
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| Colección: | The Thom Hartmann hidden history series ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: A Rebellion against the Monarchy; In the Beginning; A Suicide Pact; Corporate America Seizes the Court; Part One: Th eHidden History of Judicial Review; The Founders' Vision; The Glue That Binds Us Together; A Bold Experiment; Debating the Supreme Court; Where Does the New Buck Stop?; The Power Grab; Whoever Controls the Law Controls the Country; Jefferson: "The People Themselves"; Who Decides What the Constitution Means?; The Powell Memo and the Court; Partisan Politics in "Original Intent"; Originalism Is Joined by Textualism
- One True SpokesmanClear Preferences versus Ambiguities; The Corruption of the Court Itself; Fossil Fuels Seize the Court; Right-Wing Takeover and Corporate Handouts; The Constitution Afflicts the Afflicted and Comforts the Comfortable; The Constitution Protects Property and Its Owners; The Constitution Protects Killers and Slave Owners; The Constitution Prefers Property Rights to Human Rights; The Constitution Protects Takers, Not the Taken; Part Two: The Hidden History of the People and the Court; The Supreme Court versus Labor
- Haymarket and Allgeyer: The Public Turns against Labor and the Court FollowsThe Great Depression: The Public Embraces Labor and the Supreme Court Follows; FDR Tries to Pack the Supreme Court; The Court Devastates Union Rights; The Supreme Court versus Civil Rights; "Separate but Equal": Created by the Court, Ended through Popular Struggle; The Road to Plessy; Charles Houston and the Long Slog to End Jim Crow; Brown: The Supreme Court Overrules Itself; How Roe Empowered the Right; The Supreme Court and the Environment; Local Zoning Law as Early Environmental Law
- Protecting the Environment Goes FederalThe Planet's Future on Trial; In Nature's Trust; Our Children's Trust; A New Hurdle to Climate Justice; How Communities Fight Back; How Idealogues and Partisans Seized the Court: From Nixon to Trump; Reagan and the Court; George H.W. Bush Avoids Prosecution; George W. Bush and the Court; An Astroturf Resistance in Florida; Trump and the Court; If We'd Had Clean Elections; Part Three: To Save the Planet, Democratize, and Modernize the Supreme Court; Regulating the Number of Justices on the Court; Term Limits; Cameras in the Courtroom
- The Constitutional Amendment Remedy for an Out-of-Control CourtThe Last Resort: Strip the Courts; The Roberts Plan to Strip the Courts; Court Stripping in the 20th Century; A Planetary Emergency; Taking Democracy Back from the Court; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author