Offers accounts of over four hundred cases argued before the Supreme Court, including Marbury v. Madison, Scott v. Sandford, and Brown v. Board of Education.
In Democracy in America, De Tocqueville observed that there is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Two...
This new edition includes new entries on key cases and fully updated treatment of crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and ...
This new edition includes new entries on key cases and fully updated treatment of desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
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SEE ALSO Judicial power ; Judicial review ; Judiciary Act of 1789 SOURCES Robert Lowry Clinton , Marbury v . Madison and Judicial Review ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 1989 ) . John A. Garraty , " The Case of the Missing ...
In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, ...
A landmark in legal publishing, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court is a now classic text many of whose entries are regularly cited by scholars as the definitive statement...
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Woodward. 4 Wheat. 518 (1819) Vote: 5–1 For the Court: Marshall Concurring: Story and Washington Dissenting: Duvall Not Participating: Todd the agreement with the king became an agreement with the state of New Hampshire.