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The law of the land : a history of the Supreme Court

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  • Author: Hall, Kermit
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2003
    Summary:

    Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution. Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions.

    Contents:
    • The judicial power, jurisdiction, and the ages of the Supreme Court
    • The establishment of judicial review: Marbury v. Madison (1803)
    • Privilege and creative destruction: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)
    • Equality, slavery andthe Supreme Court: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
    • Native American sovereignty and the Constitution: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
    • Liberty to contract in the Industrial Age: Lochner v. New York (1905)
    • Clear and present danger, the First Amendment, and total war: Abrams v. United States (1919)
    • A switch in time?: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
    • Japanese interment and total war: Korematsu v. United States (1944)
    • Simple justice: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954, 1955)
    • Abortion, women and equality: Roe v. Wade (1973)
    • Presidential immunity and Watergate: United States v. Nixon (1974)
    • The boundaries of discrimination: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
    • The ten greatest justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
    Genre:
    History and geography, Law materials, Political science
    Subject(s): Biography | Constitutional history | Constitutional law | Judges | United States
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781461824220