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Judicial Supremacy And The Inferior Courts In The American Colonies
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Book Synopsis Judicial Supremacy and the Inferior Courts in the American Colonies by : Richard Brandon Morris
Download or read book Judicial Supremacy and the Inferior Courts in the American Colonies written by Richard Brandon Morris and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Judicial Supremacy in America by : Robert Carter Pittman
Download or read book Judicial Supremacy in America written by Robert Carter Pittman and published by . This book was released on 1953* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Supreme Court of the United States by : Westel Woodbury Willoughby
Download or read book The Supreme Court of the United States written by Westel Woodbury Willoughby and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the Court Became Supreme by : Paul D. Moreno
Download or read book How the Court Became Supreme written by Paul D. Moreno and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of its history, the United States Supreme Court has emerged as the most powerful judiciary unit the world has ever seen. Paul D. Moreno’s How the Court Became Supreme offers a deep dive into its transformation from an institution paid little notice by the American public to one whose decisions are analyzed and broadcast by major media outlets across the nation. The Court is supreme today not just within the judicial branch of the federal government but also over the legislative and executive branches, effectively possessing the ability to police elections and choose presidents. Before 1987, nearly all nominees to the Court sailed through confirmation hearings, often with little fanfare, but these nominations have now become pivotal moments in the minds of voters. Complaints of judicial primacy range across the modern political spectrum, but little attention is given to what precisely that means or how it happened. What led to the ascendancy of America’s highest court? Moreno seeks to answer this question, tracing the long history of the Court’s expansion of influence and examining how the Court envisioned by the country’s Founders has evolved into an imperial judiciary. The US Constitution contains a multitude of safeguards to prevent judicial overreach, but while those measures remain in place today, most have fallen into disuse. Many observers maintain that the Court exercises legislative or executive power under the guise of judicial review, harming rather than bolstering constitutional democracy. How the Court Became Supreme tells the story of the origin and development of this problem, proposing solutions that might compel the Court to embrace its more traditional role in our constitutional republic.
Book Synopsis The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763 by :
Download or read book The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763 written by and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut by : Dwight Loomis
Download or read book The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut written by Dwight Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions by : Chris Thornhill
Download or read book A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions written by Chris Thornhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a unique sociological approach to the analysis of transnational legal norms. This title is also available as Open Access.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Federalist Papers by : Jack N. Rakove
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Federalist Papers written by Jack N. Rakove and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted approach to The Federalist that covers both its historical value and its continuing political relevance.
Book Synopsis Introduction to American Constitutional Law by : Francis Howard Heller
Download or read book Introduction to American Constitutional Law written by Francis Howard Heller and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bodin: On Sovereignty by : Jean Bodin
Download or read book Bodin: On Sovereignty written by Jean Bodin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume translates four chapters of Bodin's Six livres de la république, a vast synthesis of comparative public law and politics.
Book Synopsis Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States by : William W. Crosskey
Download or read book Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States written by William W. Crosskey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first two volumes of William Crosskey's monumental study of the Constitution appeared in 1953, Arthur M. Schlesinger called it "perhaps the most fertile commentary on that document since The Federalist papers." It was highly controversial as well. The work was a comprehensive reassessment of the meaning of the Constitution, based on examination of eighteenth-century usages of key political and legal concepts and terms. Crosskey's basic thesis was that the Founding Fathers truly intended a government with plenary, nationwide powers, and not, as in the received views, a limited federalism. This third volume of Politics and the Constitution, which Crosskey began and William Jeffrey has finished, treats political activity in the period 1776-87, and is in many ways the heart of the work as Crosskey conceived it. In support of the lexicographic analysis of volumes 1 and 2, volume 3 shows that nationalist ideas and sentiments were a powerful force in American public opinion from the Revolution to the eve of the Constitutional Convention. The creation of a generally empowered national government in Philadelphia, it is argued, was the fruition of a long-active political movement, not the unintended or accidental result of a temporary conservative coalition. This view of the political background of the Constitutional Convention directly challenges the Madisonian-Jeffersonian orthodoxy on the subject. In support of his interpretation, Crosskey amassed a wealth of primary source materials, including heretofore unexplored pamphlets and newspapers. This exhaustive research makes this unique work invaluable for scholars of the period, both for the primary sources collected as well as for the provocative interpretation offered.
Book Synopsis Shades of Freedom by : A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
Download or read book Shades of Freedom written by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history of race and the American legal process. Published in 1978, this brilliant book has been hailed as the definitive account of racism, slavery, and the law in colonial America. Now, after twenty years, comes the long-awaited sequel. In Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. Perhaps the most powerful and insightful writing centers on a pair of famous Supreme Court cases, which Higginbotham uses to portray race relations at two vital moments in our history. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 declared that a slave who had escaped to free territory must be returned to his slave owner. Chief Justice Roger Taney, in his notorious opinion for the majority, stated that blacks were "so inferior that they had no right which the white man was bound to respect." For Higginbotham, Taney's decision reflects the extreme state that race relations had reached just before the Civil War. And after the War and Reconstruction, Higginbotham reveals, the Courts showed a pervasive reluctance (if not hostility) toward the goal of full and equal justice for African Americans, and this was particularly true of the Supreme Court. And in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which Higginbotham terms "one of the most catastrophic racial decisions ever rendered," the Court held that full equality--in schooling or housing, for instance--was unnecessary as long as there were "separate but equal" facilities. Higginbotham also documents the eloquent voices that opposed the openly racist workings of the judicial system, from Reconstruction Congressman John R. Lynch to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan to W. E. B. Du Bois, and he shows that, ironically, it was the conservative Supreme Court of the 1930s that began the attack on school segregation, and overturned the convictions of African Americans in the famous Scottsboro case. But today racial bias still dominates the nation, Higginbotham concludes, as he shows how in six recent court cases the public perception of black inferiority continues to persist. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history--and a mirror to the American soul.
Book Synopsis Religion and Politics in America [2 volumes] by : Frank J. Smith
Download or read book Religion and Politics in America [2 volumes] written by Frank J. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelation of religion and politics from colonial days to the present. Can a judge display the Ten Commandments outside of the courthouse? Can a town set up a nativity scene on the village green during Christmas? Should U.S. currency bear the "In God We Trust" motto? Should public school students be allowed to form bible study groups? Controversies about the separation of church and state, the proper use of religious imagery in public space, and the role of religious beliefs in public education are constantly debated. This work offers insights into contemporary controversies regarding the uneasy intersections of religion and politics in America. Organized alphabetically, the entries place each topic in its proper historical context to help readers fully grasp how religious beliefs have always existed side by side—and often clashed with—political ideals in the United States from the time of the colonies. The information is presented in an unbiased manner that favors no particular religious background or political inclination. This work shows that politics and religion have always had an impact on one another and have done so in many ways that will likely surprise modern students.
Book Synopsis The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law by : James Bradley Thayer
Download or read book The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law written by James Bradley Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Science Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31-38 and to no. 1 of v. 40).
Book Synopsis Colonial Origins of the American Constitution by : Donald S. Lutz
Download or read book Colonial Origins of the American Constitution written by Donald S. Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis One Supreme Court by : James E Pfander
Download or read book One Supreme Court written by James E Pfander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In offering a general account of the Court as department head, Pfander takes up such important debates in the federal courts' literature as Congress's power to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to review state court decisions, its authority to assign decision-making authority to state courts, and much more.