The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress
Author: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780300022391
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Author: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780300022391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Bagnell Bury
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew W. Slaboch
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0812249801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatthew W. Slaboch examines the work of German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Oswald Spengler, Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and American historians Henry Adams and Christopher Lasch—rare skeptics of the idea of progress who have much to offer political theory, a field dominated by historical optimists.
Author: Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0578016664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future emancipated from its chains and led by the progress of reason and the establishment of liberty. Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an elate and giddy optimist, Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print.
Author: Charles J. Ogletree
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780393058970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Harvard Law School professor examines the impact that Brown v. Board of Education has had on his family, citing historical figures, while revealing how the reforms promised by the case were systematically undermined.
Author: Linda Greenhouse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0199930066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works.
Author: Alexander M. Bickel
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 7
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780300021196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrasts liberal views in the tradition of John Locke with conservative Whig attitudes as personified by Edmund Burke in a consideration of moral duty and civil disobedience
Author: Alexander M. Bickel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1986-09-10
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780300173338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions along the way. Eminent law professor Alexander Bickel begins with Marbury vs. Madison, which he says gives shaky support to judicial review, and concludes with the school desegregation cases of 1954, which he uses to show the extent and limits of the Court’s power. In this way he accomplishes his stated purpose: “to have the Supreme Court’s exercise of judicial review better understood and supported and more sagaciously used.” The book now includes new foreword by Henry Wellington.Reviews of the Earlier Edition:“Dozens of books have examined and debated the court’s role in the American system. Yet there remains great need for the scholarship and perception, the sound sense and clear view Alexander Bickel brings to the discussion.... Students of the court will find much independent and original thinking supported by wide knowledge. Many judges could read the book with profit.” -Donovan Richardson, Christian Science Monitor“The Yale professor is a law teacher who is not afraid to declare his own strong views of legal wrongs... One of the rewards of this book is that Professor Bickel skillfully knits in "ations from a host of authorities and, since these are carefully documented, the reader may look them up in their settings. Among the author’s favorites is the late Thomas Reed Powell of Harvard, whose wit flashes on a good many pages.” -Irving Dillard, Saturday ReviewAlexander M. Bickel was professor of law at Yale University.
Author: Mike Lee
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1546002359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this national bestseller praised by Mark Levin and Sean Hannity, a leading conservative senator explains how the left’s partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics. It wasn’t long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court for political gain. But now, in the Biden era, more and more powerful Democrats are getting behind the cause, claiming the high court is broken and actively dismantling our democracy. Even Joe Biden—who once called court-packing a “bonehead idea”—gave in to the progressive wing of his party, appointing a committee to examine “reforms” to the court after being sworn in as president. In Saving Nine, Mike Lee, a brilliant legal mind, details the history of the current composition of the Supreme Court and strongly warns against the norm-shattering precedent that would be set by politically motivated attempts to turn the Supreme Court into just another partisan weapon.