American Constitutional Development
Author : Carl Brent Swisher
Publisher :
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Author : Carl Brent Swisher
Publisher :
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Author : Richard S. Randall
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN :
This volume examines constitutional law in a unique, developmental framework that shows how key events through American history have shaped the Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution. Places unique emphasis on the political, economic, social and developmental aspects of the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions. The book examines the great issues and events of government and politics in the early, middle, and modern constitutions, how they have shaped the Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution, and how the distributive consequences of that understanding, in turn, affect American political life. For those who are interested in the American constitution.
Author : Richard S. Randall
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9780801320217
* Cases and text combine to provide a look at how individual rights have been doctrinally shaped by the Supreme Court through interpretation of constitutional and statutory law. * Analyzes how America's ideological commitment to rights is transformed by the Supreme Court into law and legal doctrine and then into enforceable rules in specific cases. * Places unique emphasis on the political, economic, social and developmental aspects of the Supreme Court's civil liberties decisions. * Includes an abundance of cases, more than 100 in all.
Author : Ken I. Kersch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521010559
This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.
Author : Henry Jones Ford
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1990-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780791403044
This book is a discussion of current trends in the constitutional protection of economic liberties. Since the mid-1930s, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to replace legislative judgements on matters of economic regulation with its own. While the Court permits wide legislative experimentation in the economic realm, it scrutinizes governmental attempts to regulate or abridge other civil liberties quite closely. This state of affairs is known as the double standard. The question of the appropriateness of this unequal treatment by the Court of these two classes of liberties generates much of the controversy in this volume. Other topics dealt with include the current trends in (and relevance of) constitutional law for welfare rights, labor unions, and labor law. Recent Supreme Court decisions on property rights also receive much attention.
Author : Melvin I. Urofsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9780195382747
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States is a clearly written, comprehensive overview of American constitutional development. Covering the country's history from the founding of the English colonies up through the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, this two-volume work presents the most complete discussion of American constitutional history currently available. Authors Melvin I. Urofsky and Paul Finkelman successfully blend cases and court doctrines into the larger fabric of American political, economic, and social history. They discuss in detail the great cases handed down by the Supreme Court, showing how these cases played out in society and how constitutional growth parallels changes in American culture. In addition, they examine lesser-known decisions that played important roles in affecting change, and also provide in-depth analyses of the intellects and personalities of the Supreme Court justices who made these influential decisions. Updated with the most recent scholarship, the third edition of A March of Liberty offers more cases on a broader range of issues including the environment, labor, civil rights, and Native American concerns. It now presents new selections on decisions, statutes, and constitutional developments from the first decade of the 21st century--like the USA PATRIOT Act, presidential signing statements, same-sex marriage, reproductive rights, campaign financing, and firearms regulation. The text reflects the current trends in American constitutional history by employing a holistic approach that integrates the decisions of the state and lower federal courts with the decisions of the Supreme Court. A March of Liberty, Third Edition, features useful supplemental materials including the text of the Constitution, a chronological list of Supreme Court justices, an appendix of the names and years for each Supreme Court justice, and suggested further readings. Gracefully written and clearly explained, this popular two-volume set is indispensable for courses in American constitutional history and law.
Author : Gretchen Ritter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804754385
This book focuses on gender and civic membership in American constitutional politics from the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment through Second Wave Feminism. It examines how American civic membership is gendered, and how the terms of civic membership available to men and women shape their political identities, aspirations, and behavior. The book also explores the dynamics of American constitutional development through a focus on civic membership--a legal and political construct at the heart of the constitutional order. This is a book about gender politics and constitutional development, and about what each of these can tell us about the other. It considers the options and choices faced by womens rights activists in the United States as they voiced their claims for civic inclusion from Reconstruction through Second Wave Feminism, and it makes evident the limits of liberal citizenship for women.
Author : James Morton Smith
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Author : D. Grier Stephenson
Publisher : Harlan Davidson
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :