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Creating constitutional change : clashes over power and liberty in the Supreme Court / edited by Gregg Ivers and Kevin T. McGuire.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Constitutionalism and democracy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--United States--Cases.
- Constitutional law.
- United States.
- Judicial process--United States.
- Judicial process.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 353 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- For some time, books summarizing the U.S. Supreme Court's Decisions for undergraduate constitutional law courses paid scant attention to the historical and political context in which cases are decided, the motives of the litigants, the involvement of interest groups, and the justices' concerns with policy outcomes. Gregg Ivers and Kevin T. McGuire commissioned twenty-two scholars to contribute brief essays on selected Supreme court cases, extending right up through Bush v. Gore and the 2003 Michigan affirmative action cases.
- Contents:
- Judicial power
- Executive power
- Legislative power
- Federalism
- Establishment of religion
- Free exercise of religion
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of the press
- Search and seizure
- Evidence
- Cruel and unusual punishment
- Racial discrimination
- Gender discrimination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813923026
- 0813923034
- OCLC:
- 53441444
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