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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... action it is reviewing—the president or Congress,if the case involves the federal government, or state legislatures or executives if the case involves states. (How to decide whether that position is reasonable is the topic of chapter 2 ...
... action it is reviewing—the president or Congress,if the case involves the federal government, or state legislatures or executives if the case involves states. (How to decide whether that position is reasonable is the topic of chapter 2 ...
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... action, gay rights, the war on terror, and the taking of private property for public use. I also discuss some older cases, in order to see what we can learn from decisions that are now either universally accepted or universally re ...
... action, gay rights, the war on terror, and the taking of private property for public use. I also discuss some older cases, in order to see what we can learn from decisions that are now either universally accepted or universally re ...
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... action, and gay rights, and also with deep and abstract questions about the structure of our government, like the scope of federal legislative power and the authority of the president during wartime. These are issues with which every ...
... action, and gay rights, and also with deep and abstract questions about the structure of our government, like the scope of federal legislative power and the authority of the president during wartime. These are issues with which every ...
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... action to save the Constitution from the Court.”10 Lincoln and the Roosevelts are generally considered good presidents, and the Supreme Court decisions they opposed have not fared well in the judgment of history. But the rhetoric of ...
... action to save the Constitution from the Court.”10 Lincoln and the Roosevelts are generally considered good presidents, and the Supreme Court decisions they opposed have not fared well in the judgment of history. But the rhetoric of ...
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... action is challenged, the government (either state or federal) appears as one of the litigants. Article VI of the Constitution requires every government official,both state and federal,to take an oath to support the Constitution. (It is ...
... action is challenged, the government (either state or federal) appears as one of the litigants. Article VI of the Constitution requires every government official,both state and federal,to take an oath to support the Constitution. (It is ...
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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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