The Political Offender and the Warren Court
Author | : Charles Herman Pritchett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Herman Pritchett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey R. Stone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-01-06 |
Genre | : LAW |
ISBN | : 019093820X |
From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet, despite those and other achievements, conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority by supposedly imposing their own opinions on the nation. As the eminent legal scholars Geoffrey R. Stone and David A. Strauss demonstrate in Democracy and Equality, the Warren Court's approach to the Constitution was consistent with the most basic values of our Constitution and with the most fundamental responsibilities of our judiciary. Stone and Strauss describe the Warren Court's extraordinary achievements by reviewing its jurisprudence across a range of issues addressing our nation's commitment to the values of democracy and equality. In each chapter, they tell the story of a critical decision, exploring the historical and legal context of each case, the Court's reasoning, and how the justices of the Warren Court fulfilled the Court's most important responsibilities. This powerfully argued evaluation of the Warren Court's legacy, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Warren Court, both celebrates and defends the Warren Court's achievements against almost sixty-five years of unrelenting and unwarranted attacks by conservatives. It demonstrates not only why the Warren Court's approach to constitutional interpretation was correct and admirable, but also why the approach of the Warren Court was far superior to that of the increasingly conservative justices who have dominated the Supreme Court over the past half-century.
Author | : L. A. Scot Powe |
Publisher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
About the United States Supreme Court during Earl Warren's term as United States Chief Justice and its involvement in politics.
Author | : Mark V. Tushnet |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813916651 |
The tenure of Earl Warren as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1953-69) was marked by a series of decisions unique in the history of the Court for the progressive agenda they bespoke. What made the Warren Court special? How can students of history and political science understand the Warren Court as part of constitutional history and politics? To answer such questions, nine well-known legal scholars and historians explore how each justice contributed to the distinctiveness of the Warren Court in Supreme Court history.
Author | : Philip B. Kurland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780226464077 |
Author | : Alexander M. Bickel |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1973-04-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Archibald Cox |
Publisher | : Cambridge : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674947405 |
The appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States in 1953 marked the opening of a new era in the nation's constitutional development. As Mr. Cox points out in his Preface, during the next fifteen years the Supreme Court rewrote, with profound social consequences, major constitutional doctrines governing race relations, the administration of criminal justice, and the operation of the political process. The extent and the rapidity of these changes raise grave questions concerning the nature and function of constitutional adjudication and the proper role of the Supreme Court in the national life. In these lectures, originally given in somewhat shorter form in Honolulu in the summer of 1967 under the joint auspices of Harvard Law School and the University of Hawaii, Mr. Cox describes the main lines of constitutional development under the Warren Court. He analyzes the underlying pressures involved and the long-range institutional consequences in terms of the distribution of governmental power. The central theme of Mr. Cox's book is embodied in his examination of the American paradox that invests the judicial branch with the responsibility of deciding "according to law" our most pressing and divisive social, economic, and political questions. Although not uncritical of the grounds on which several of the court's crucial decisions have been reached, Mr. Cox comes to the conclusion that the trend of the rulings has been "in keeping with the mainstream of American history--a bit progressive but also moderate, a bit humane but not sentimental, a bit idealistic but seldom doctrinaire, and in the long run essentially pragmatic--in short, in keeping with the true genius of our institutions."
Author | : Bernard Schwartz |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael J. Graetz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476732515 |
The magnitude of the Burger Court has been underestimated by historians. When Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards dotted the landscape, especially in the South. Nixon promised to transform the Supreme Court--and with four appointments, including a new chief justice, he did. This book tells the story of the Supreme Court that came in between the liberal Warren Court and the conservative Rehnquist and Roberts Courts: the seventeen years, 1969 to 1986, under Chief Justice Warren Burger. It is a period largely written off as a transitional era at the Supreme Court when, according to the common verdict, "nothing happened." How wrong that judgment is. The Burger Court had vitally important choices to make: whether to push school desegregation across district lines; how to respond to the sexual revolution and its new demands for women's equality; whether to validate affirmative action on campuses and in the workplace; whether to shift the balance of criminal law back toward the police and prosecutors; what the First Amendment says about limits on money in politics. The Burger Court forced a president out of office while at the same time enhancing presidential power. It created a legacy that in many ways continues to shape how we live today. Written with a keen sense of history and expert use of the justices' personal papers, this book sheds new light on an important era in American political and legal history.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Author | : Bernard Schwartz |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |