The birth of the modern Constitution : the United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The birth of the modern Constitution : the United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953
（History of the Supreme Court of the United States, v. 12）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : hbk
Available at / 18 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Birth of the Modern Constitution recounts the history of the United States Supreme Court in the momentous yet usually overlooked years between the constitutional revolution in the 1930s and Warren-Court judicial activism in the 1950s. 1941-1953 marked the emergence of legal liberalism, in the divergent activist efforts of Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, and Wiley Rutledge. The Stone/Vinson Courts consolidated the revolutionary accomplishments of the New Deal and affirmed the repudiation of classical legal thought, but proved unable to provide a substitute for that powerful legitimating explanatory paradigm of law. Hence the period bracketed by the dramatic moments of 1937 and 1954, written off as a forgotten time of failure and futility, was in reality the first phase of modern struggles to define the constitutional order that will dominate the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Roosevelt Court: 1. American Public Law in 1941
- 2. A new Court
- 3. Carolene Products (1938): prism of the Stone Court
- Part II. First Amendment Freedoms: 4. Freedom of speech in the Stone Court
- 5. Freedom of speech in the Vinson Court
- 6. The free exercise of religion
- 7. The establishment of religion
- Part III. World War Two and the Constitution: 8. Total war and the constitution
- 9. Military courts and treason
- 10. Silent Leges: Japanese internment
- 11. National authority during and after the war
- Part IV. The Truman Court: 12. The Truman Court
- 13. American jurisprudence after the war: 'reason called law'
- 14. The problem of incorporation
- 15. Adamson v. California (1947): prism of the Vinson Court
- Part V. The Cold War: 16. Anticommunism and the Cold War: Dennis v. United States
- 17. The Cold War cases
- Part VI. Civil Rights: 18. Civil Rights and the Stone Court
- 19. Civil Rights and the Vinson Court.
by "Nielsen BookData"
