The Supreme Court and American political development / edited by Ronald Kahn and Ken I. Kersch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahn, Ronald.

Kersch, Kenneth Ira, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court--History.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court.

Political questions and judicial power--United States--History.

Political questions and judicial power.

History.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 494 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2006]

Contents:

Legal, strategic or legal strategy : deciding to decide during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Mark A. Graber

Social constructions, Supreme Court reversals, and American political development : Lochner, Plessy, Bowers, but not Roe / Ronald Kahn

The Supreme Court and the national political order : collaboration and confrontation / Mark Tushnet

Party politics and constitutional change : the political origins of liberal judicial activism / Howard Gillman

The New Deal triumph as the end of history? : the judicial negotiation of labor rights and civil rights / Ken I. Kersch

(Re)construction of constitutional authority and meaning : the Fourteenth Amendment and Slaughter-house cases / Wayne D. Moore

The Civil rights cases and the lost language of state neglect / Pamela Brandwein

Pace v. Alabama : interracial love, the marriage contract, and postbellum foundations of the family / Julie Novkov

Constitutionalizing terms of inclusion : friends of the Indian and citizenship for Native Americans, 1880s-1930s / Carol Nackenoff

From Bakke to Grutter : the rise of rights-based conservatism / Thomas M. Keck

Conclusion : Supreme Court decision making and American political development / Ronald Kahn and Ken I. Kersch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0700614389

0700614397

OCLC:

62896395

Publisher Number:

9780700614394