Nominations of William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13:
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Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr
Author: John Calvin Jeffries
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823221097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. is an absorbing and readable biography of one of the most important Supreme Court Justices since World War II.
An Introduction to Constitutional Law
Author: Randy E. Barnett
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Published: 2022-11-08
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Introduction to Constitutional Law teaches the narrative of constitutional law as it has developed historically and provides the essential background to understand how this foundational body of law has come to be what it is today. This multimedia experience combines a book and video series to engage students more directly in the study of constitutional law. All students—even those unfamiliar with American history—will garner a firm understanding of how constitutional law has evolved. An eleven-hour online video library brings the Supreme Court’s most important decisions to life. Videos are enriched by photographs, maps, and audio from the Supreme Court. The book and videos are accessible for all levels: law school, college, high school, home school, and independent study. Students can read and watch these materials before class to prepare for lectures or study after class to fill in any gaps in their notes. And, come exam time, students can binge-watch the entire canon of constitutional law in about twelve hours.
Closed Chambers
Author: Edward Lazarus
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of "Black Hills/White Justice" offers an inside look at the most secretive institution in the American government--the Supreme Court. of photos.
Nominations of William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKClashing Worldviews in the U.S. Supreme Court
Author: James Davids
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1498570607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrasting two Protestant justices who hold distinctively different worldviews, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, this book explores how each came to hold his worldview, how each applied it in Supreme Court rulings, and how it led them to differing outcomes for liberty, equality, and justice. This clash of worldviews between Rehnquist, whose religious and philosophical influences were anchored in the Reformation, and Blackmun, whose Reformation theology was modified by Enlightenment philosophy, provide the context to examine the true nature of justice, liberty, and equality and to consider how such ideals can be maintained in a society with increasingly divergent worldviews.
Deciding to Leave
Author: Artemus Ward
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780791487228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much has been written on Supreme Court appointments, Deciding to Leave provides the first systematic look at the process by which justices decide to retire from the bench, and why this has become increasingly partisan in recent years. Since 1954, generous retirement provisions and decreasing workloads have allowed justices to depart strategically when a president of their own party occupies the White House. Otherwise, the justices remain in their seats, often past their ability to effectively participate in the work of the Court. While there are benefits and drawbacks to various reform proposals, Ward argues that mandatory retirement goes farthest in combating partisanship and protecting the institution of the Court.
All the Laws but One
Author: William H. Rehnquist
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307424693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security. "A highly original account of the proper role of the Supreme Court, a role that makes most sense in times of war, but that has its attractions whenever the Court is embroiled in great social controversies." --The New Republic Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and the rights of man, suspended the writ of habeas corpus early in the Civil War--later in the war he also imposed limits upon freedom of speech and the press and demanded that political criminals be tried in military courts. During World War II, the government forced 100,000 U.S. residents of Japanese descent, including many citizens, into detainment camps. Through these and other incidents Chief Justice Rehnquist brilliantly probes the issues at stake in the balance between the national interest and personal freedoms. With All the Laws but One he significantly enlarges our understanding of how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution during past periods of national crisis--and draws guidelines for how it should do so in the future.
Centennial Crisis
Author: William H. Rehnquist
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307425215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War years, when the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marked by misjudgment and scandal, and Hayes, Republican governor of Ohio, vied with Tilden, a wealthy Democratic lawyer and successful corruption buster, to succeed Grant as America’s chief executive. The upshot was a very close popular vote (in favor of Tilden) that an irremediably deadlocked Congress was unable to resolve. In the pitched battle that ensued along party lines, the ultimate decision of who would be President rested with a commission that included five Supreme Court justices, as well as five congressional members from each party. With a firm understanding of the energies that motivated the era’s movers and shakers, and no shortage of insight into the processes by which epochal decisions are made, Chief Justice Rehnquist draws the reader intimately into a nineteenth-century event that offers valuable history lessons for us in the twenty-first.
