Making constitutional law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 /

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice. The first book on Justice Thurgood Marshall's years on the Supreme Court...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tushnet, Mark, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Temas:
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993.
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993
Marshall, Thurgood > 1908-1993
Marshall, Thurgood.
USA > Supreme Court
Judges > United States > Biography.
Constitutional law > United States.
Civil rights > United States > History.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
LAW > Government > Federal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
Civil rights
Constitutional law
Judges
Verfassungsrecht
Rechters.
Juges > Etats-Unis > Biographie.
Droit constitutionnel > Etats-Unis.
Droits civils et politiques > Etats-Unis > Histoire.
United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: "Things That We Knew but Would Rather Forget"
  • "The Right Man and the Right Place": From the Second Circuit to the Supreme Court"
  • "The Steam Roller Will Have to Grind Me Under": Marshall and the Brethren
  • "Assumptions About How People Live": Working on the Supreme Court
  • "Unless Our Children Begin to Learn Together": Desegregating the Schools
  • "Vital Interests of a Powerless Minority": Equal Protection Theory
  • "Now, When a State Acts to Remedy ... Discrimination": Affirmative Action
  • "Compassion in Time of Crisis": The Death Penalty
  • "We Are Dealing with a Man's Life": Administering the Death Penalty
  • "Some Clear Promise of a Better World": The Jurisprudence of Thurgood Marshall
  • Epilogue: "He Did What He Could with What He Had."

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