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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814209603321

Titolo

I dissent : great opposing opinions in landmark Supreme Court cases / / edited by Mark Tushnet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8070-9808-6

0-8070-9793-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TushnetMark V. <1945->

Disciplina

347.73/2609

Soggetti

Judicial opinions - United States

Judicial review - United States

Constitutional law - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229).

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Introduction: Why Dissent? -- Chapter 1: "The legislature is entitled to all the deference that is due the judiciary." -- Chapter 2: "Experience should teach us wisdom." -- Chapter 3: "Among those for whom and whose posterity the Constitution was ordained and established." -- Chapter 4: "To enable the black race to take the rank of mere citizens." -- Chapter 5: "There is no caste here." -- Chapter 6: "Room for debate and for an honest difference of opinion." -- Chapter 7: "Men feared witches and burned women." -- Chapter 8: "Almost anything-marriage, birth, death-may in some fashion affect commerce." -- Chapter 9: "The ugly abyss of racism." -- Chapter 10: "Refrain from invidious discriminations." -- Chapter 11: "Our decision does not end but begins the struggle over segregation." -- Chapter 12: "To attribute, however flatteringly, omnicompetence to judges." -- Chapter 13: "A sterile metaphor which by its very nature may distort rather than illumine the problems." -- Chapter 14: "I get nowhere in this case by talk about a constitutional 'right of privacy.' " -- Chapter 15: "That is what this suit is about. Power." -- Chapter 16 :"Do not believe it." -- Conclusion -- Sources and Additional Readings.