Book Description
Constructs an original dialogue between constitutional law, film, and identity by using Hong Kong as a case study.
Author : Marco Wan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 110849577X
Constructs an original dialogue between constitutional law, film, and identity by using Hong Kong as a case study.
Author : Nathaniel Persily
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195329414
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of American public opinion on the key constitutional controversies of the twentieth century: desegregation, school prayer, abortion, the death penalty, gay rights, and national security, to name just a few. It examines each controversy, explaining how public attitudes have shifted over time, especially in the wake of prominent Supreme Court decisions.
Author : Robert A. Goldwin
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN :
Author : SARAH E. RICKS
Publisher :
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781531019181
Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Law
ISBN :
The reliance on state declarations of rights to expand rights protections during the last two decades has highlighted the political importance of state constitutions. Yet, throughout American history up to the present day, state constitutions have been the battleground for fundamental political conflicts. This edited volume analyzes the efforts of various groups to achieve their ends via constitutional revision and constitutional amendments, examines the responses to controversial state constitutional rulings, and assesses the consequences of constitutional politics on substantive state policy.
Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521755956
This book examines the Supreme Court's proper role in adjudicating moral controversies that implicate constitutional rights.
Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1400882729
Slavery, segregation, abortion, workers' rights, the power of the courts. These issues have been at the heart of the greatest constitutional controversies in American history. And in this concise and thought-provoking volume, some of today's most distinguished legal scholars and commentators explain for a general audience how five landmark Supreme Court cases centered on those controversies shaped the country's destiny and continue to affect us even now. The book is a profound exploration of the Supreme Court's importance to America's social and political life. It is also, as many of the contributors show, an intriguing reflection of what some have seen as an important trend in legal scholarship away from an uncritical belief in the essentially benign nature of judicial power. Robert George opens with an illuminating survey of the themes that unite and divide the five cases. Other contributors then examine each case in detail through a lively commentary-and-response format. Mark Tushnet and Jeremy Waldron exchange views on Marbury v. Madison, the pivotal 1803 case that established the power of the courts to invalidate legislation. Cass Sunstein and James McPherson discuss Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the notorious case that confirmed the rights of slaveowners, declared that black people could not be American citizens, and is often seen as a cause of the Civil War. Hadley Arkes and Donald Drakeman explore the legacy of Lochner v. New York (1905), a case that ushered in decades of judicial hostility to social welfare laws. Earl Maltz and Walter Murphy assess Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954), the famous case that ended racial segregation in public schools. Finally, Jean Bethke Elshtain and George Will tackle Roe v. Wade (1973), still a flashpoint a quarter of a century later in the debate over abortion. While some of the contributors show sympathy for strong judicial interventions on social issues, many across the ideological spectrum are sharply critical of judicial activism. A compelling introduction to the greatest cases in U.S. constitutional law, this is also an enlightening glimpse of the state of the art in American legal scholarship.
Author : Brian C. Kalt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300178018
The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controversies, such as the criminal prosecution of a sitting president, a two-term president's attempt to stay in power, the ousting of an allegedly disabled president, and more. None of these things has ever occurred, but in recent years many of them almost have. Besides being individually dramatic, these controversies provide an opportunity to think about how constitutional procedures can best be designed, interpreted, and repaired. Also, because the events Kalt describes would all carry enormous political consequences, they shed light on the delicate and complicated balance between law and politics in American government.
Author : Anne Richardson Oakes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317160061
This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contributors with a range of perspectives interrogate the legal, theoretical and factual assumptions which shape case law and consider the extent to which they satisfactorily address contemporary concerns with social hierarchies and norms. Divided into five parts, the study focusses on the connections between equal protection jurisprudence, discrimination in its contemporary manifestations, the implications of identity politics and the moral and political conceptualizations of equality that represent the parameters of debate. Drawing on historical analysis and disciplinary insights of the social sciences, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice. The themes presented and analyses developed are among some of the most contentious currently in America, and will be of interest not just to lawyers and legal academics, but also to inter-disciplinary social science researchers, including sociologists, economists and political scientists.
Author : Michael Stokes Paulsen
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0465093299
The definitive modern primer on the US Constitution, “an eloquent testament to the Constitution as a covenant across generations” (National Review). From freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is shaped by the Constitution. Yet most of us know surprisingly little about the Constitution itself. In The Constitution, legal scholars Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen offer a lively introduction to the supreme law of the United States. Beginning with the Constitution’s birth in 1787, Paulsen and Paulsen offer a grand tour of its provisions, principles, and interpretation, introducing readers to the characters and controversies that have shaped the Constitution in the 200-plus years since its creation. Along the way, the authors correct popular misconceptions about the Constitution and offer powerful insights into its true meaning. This lucid guide provides readers with the tools to think critically about constitutional issues — a skill that is ever more essential to the continued flourishing of American democracy.