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A community built on words : the constitution in history and politics /
H. Jefferson Powell offers a powerful new approach to one of the central issues in American constitutional thinking today: the problem of constitutional law's historicity, or the many ways in which constitutional arguments and outcomes are shaped both by historical circumstances and by the poli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1790: Secretary Jefferson and the foreign affairs power
- 1791: the National Bank and the point of interpretation
- 1793: the Supreme Court and the metaphysics of sovereignty
- 1794: Kamper v. Hawkins and the role of the judiciary
- 1798 (1): Justice Paterson and the missing fundamental principle
- 1798 (2): how to think about the Sedition Act
- 1800: Marshall and the role of the political branches
- 1802: how not to think about the Judiciary Repeal Act
- 1804: Turpin v. Locket and the place of religion
- 1806: Hudgins v. Wright and the place of slavery
- 1808-1809: a forgotten crossroads in constitutional history
- 1817: President Madison vetoes his own bill
- 1818: the Congress thinks about internal improvements
- 1821: the Attorney General and the rule of law
- 1829: writing State v. Mann
- 1859: the Supreme Court and the metaphysics of supremacy
- 1862: four attorneys general and the meaning of citizenship
- 1873: Slaughterhouse revisited
- 1904: Clay May, the railroad, and Justice Holmes
- 1927: Justice Brandeis and the final end of the state
- 1944: constitutional injustice
- 2002: common ground after two centuries.