The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court DecisionsYale University Press, 1 янв. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 262 Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century's great cotton boom required vast human labour to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state lines in distant markets. Shocked by the cruelty and extent of this practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to exercise its constitutional authority over interstate commerce and outlaw the interstate selling of slaves. This groundbreaking book is the first to tell the complex story of the decades-long debate and legal battle over federal regulation of the slave trade. David Lightner explores a wide range of constitutional, social, and political issues that absorbed antebellum America. He revises accepted interpretations of various historical figures, including James Madison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln, and he argues convincingly that southern anxiety over the threat to the interstate slave trade was a key precipitant to the secession of the South and the Civil War. |
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... Senate readily confirmed him . White House counsel Harriet Miers , the president's choice to replace Sandra Day O'Con- nor , encountered more resistance . Concerned about her lack of relevant legal experience , and uncertain of Miers's ...
... Senate readily confirmed him . White House counsel Harriet Miers , the president's choice to replace Sandra Day O'Con- nor , encountered more resistance . Concerned about her lack of relevant legal experience , and uncertain of Miers's ...
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... senators who interviewed Roberts before confirming him made the same point. Senator Jeff Sessions complained about “[a]ctivist rulings not based on statutes or the Constitu- tion,” and Senator Tom Coburn lamented that “[d]ecades of ...
... senators who interviewed Roberts before confirming him made the same point. Senator Jeff Sessions complained about “[a]ctivist rulings not based on statutes or the Constitu- tion,” and Senator Tom Coburn lamented that “[d]ecades of ...
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... senators , and thirty - five for president . But these are not the constitu- tional provisions about which disagreement exists . Controver- sial decisions deal with the meaning of provisions such as the First Amendment's protection of ...
... senators , and thirty - five for president . But these are not the constitu- tional provisions about which disagreement exists . Controver- sial decisions deal with the meaning of provisions such as the First Amendment's protection of ...
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... Senate and then ratification by the legislatures of three- quarters of the states, living constitutionalists seem to view ju- dicial modification of the Constitution with equanimity—a necessary evil, at the worst. Without judicial ...
... Senate and then ratification by the legislatures of three- quarters of the states, living constitutionalists seem to view ju- dicial modification of the Constitution with equanimity—a necessary evil, at the worst. Without judicial ...
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Part II Easy Cases | 63 |
Part III Hard Cases | 87 |
Part IV Illegitimacy | 167 |
Part V Striking the Balance | 227 |
Notes | 237 |
Index | 247 |
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