A selection of the landmark Supreme Court decisions that have shaped American societyPenguin presents a series of six portable accessible and-above all-essential reads from American political history selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman author... Lees meer.

Examines landmark Supreme Court decisions including United States v. Nixon Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.... Lees meer.

Written by notable scholars in political science and law the chapters in SCOTUS 2023 present the details of each ruling its meaning for constitutional debate and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Each year the Supreme Court of the United States ann... Lees meer.

Janousek s new edition of this immensely valuable work will simplify the process of finding excerpts and commentary on every Supreme Court decision as well as the texts whether in government documents or reprinted in other sources of the decisions themselves. This th... Lees meer.

Describes important Supreme Court decisions concerning abortion since Rove vs. Wade and shares selected comments by the various justices... Lees meer.

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The debate over race in this country has of late converged on the contentious issue of affirmative action. Although the Supreme Court once supported the concept of racial affirmative action in recent years a majority of the Court has consistently opposed various affirm... Lees meer.

Excerpt from Secession and Slavery. Or the Effect of Secession on the Relation of the United States to the Seceded States and to Slavery Therein Considered as a Question of Constitutional Law Chiefly Under the Authority of Decisions of the Supreme Court Embracing A... Lees meer.

In June 1992 accompanied by the clamor of pro-choice and anti-abortion demonstrations the Supreme Court made its most significant statement to date about the right to an abortion under the Constitution in its decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.The legal attack on... Lees meer.

The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context the 18th edition has been updated with 20 new cases including landmark decisions on such top... Lees meer.

Focusing on the Supreme Court as an integral part of the policy-making process Susan Lawrence examines how a change in who has access to the Court and the nature of the institutions that structure that access has affected its agenda setting and doctrinal development.... Lees meer.

The scope of this work is broad including all free press and free speechcases from the early 19th century to the early 1980s. Summaries of approximately 300 US Supreme court decisions that bear upon the press the Frist Amendment in particular and the Constitution in... Lees meer.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the... Lees meer.

Presents both sides of the argument on the right to die and describes several landmark cases including the state of Michigan versus Dr. Jack Kevorkian.... Lees meer.

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