| Description |
xxvi, 229 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-229) |
| Contents |
Legislature is entitled to all the deference that is due the judiciary : Marbury v. Madison, 1803 / John Bannister Gibson -- Experience should teach us wisdom : McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 / Andrew Jackson -- Among those for whom and whose posterity the Constitution was ordained and established : Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 / Benjamin R. Curtis -- To enable the black race to take the rank of mere citizens : the Civil Rights Cases, 1883 ; There is no caste here : Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 / John Marshall Harlan -- Room for debate and for an honest difference of opinion : Lochner v. New York, 1905 / John Marshall Harlan, Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Men feared witches and burned women : Whitney v. California, 1927 / Louis D. Brandeis -- Almost anything-- marriage, birth, death-- may in some fashion affect commerce : National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 1937 / James McReynolds -- Ugly abyss of racism : Korematsu v. United States, 1944 / Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson -- Refrain from invidious discriminations : Goesaert v. Cleary, 1948 / Wiley Rutledge -- Our decision does not end but begins the struggle over segregation : Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 / Robert H. Jackson -- To attribute, however flatteringly, omnicompetence to judges : Baker v. Carr, 1962 / Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan -- Sterile metaphor which by its very nature may distort rather than illumine the problems : Abington School District v. Schempp, 1963 / Potter Stewart -- I get nowhere in this case by talk about a constitutional 'right of privacy' : Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 / Hugo L. Black, Potter Stewart -- That is what this suit is about. Power : Morrison v. Olson, 1988 ; Do not believe it : Lawrence v. Texas, 2003 / Antonin Scalia. |
| Subject |
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
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Dissenting opinions -- United States -- Cases.
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Judicial opinions -- United States -- Cases.
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Judicial review -- United States -- Cases.
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Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases.
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| Added Author |
Tushnet, Mark, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780807000366 |
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0807000361 |
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