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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... Refusing to Defer 169 TWELVE Reviled Decisions 202 Part V—Striking the Balance THIRTEEN Branches Behaving Badly: Whom Do You Trust? 229 Notes 237 Index 247 Acknowledgments This book would not exist without the interest and viii Contents.
... Refusing to Defer 169 TWELVE Reviled Decisions 202 Part V—Striking the Balance THIRTEEN Branches Behaving Badly: Whom Do You Trust? 229 Notes 237 Index 247 Acknowledgments This book would not exist without the interest and viii Contents.
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Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions Kermit Roosevelt. Acknowledgments. This book would not exist without the interest and inspiration of Akhil Amar and Michael O'Malley.In writing it,I have been greatly aided by the advice and ...
Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions Kermit Roosevelt. Acknowledgments. This book would not exist without the interest and inspiration of Akhil Amar and Michael O'Malley.In writing it,I have been greatly aided by the advice and ...
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... exists.Controversial decisions deal with the meaning of provisions such as the First Amendment's protection of speech and religious exercise, or the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal The Plain Meaning of the ...
... exists.Controversial decisions deal with the meaning of provisions such as the First Amendment's protection of speech and religious exercise, or the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal The Plain Meaning of the ...
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... exists at a relatively high level of generality. The Equal Protection Clause forbids unjustified discrimination; most Supreme Court justices would agree on that. But agreement that unjustified discrimination violates the Constitution is ...
... exists at a relatively high level of generality. The Equal Protection Clause forbids unjustified discrimination; most Supreme Court justices would agree on that. But agreement that unjustified discrimination violates the Constitution is ...
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... exists,but it can still get things wrong. (Justice Robert Jackson once joked that the Court is not final because it is infallible, but rather it is infallible because it is final.)1 On some questions, other institutions might be better ...
... exists,but it can still get things wrong. (Justice Robert Jackson once joked that the Court is not final because it is infallible, but rather it is infallible because it is final.)1 On some questions, other institutions might be better ...
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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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