The History of the Supreme Court of the United States Hardback
by Owen M. (Yale University, Connecticut) Fiss
Part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States series
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A highly interpretive and eminently readable study of the Supreme Court during the period in which Melvin Fuller was Chief Justice, offering a complete account of the cases the Court saw during one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history. The legacy of the Supreme Court at the turn of the century has largely been negative: decisions such as Lochner v.
New York (1905), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), In re Debs (1895), and Plessy v. Ferguson have been seen by subsequent generations of lawyers and judges as embodying a judicial method and philosophy that should be avoided at all costs.
This book places these decisions in their historical context.
It rejects the crude instrumental interpretation of these decisions and explains them as the expression of a conception of liberty that has its roots in the founding of the nation.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:446 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/05/2006
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- ISBN:9780521860277
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:446 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/05/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521860277
