[PDF] The Warren Court In Historical And Political Perspective eBook

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813916651

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The tenure of Earl Warren as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1953-69) was marked by a series of decisions unique in the history of the Court for the progressive agenda they bespoke. What made the Warren Court special? How can students of history and political science understand the Warren Court as part of constitutional history and politics? To answer such questions, nine well-known legal scholars and historians explore how each justice contributed to the distinctiveness of the Warren Court in Supreme Court history.

Author : the late Bernard Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1996-10-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195355849

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A judge-made revolution? The very term seems an oxymoron, yet this is exactly what the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren achieved. In Bernard Schwartzs latest work, based on a conference at the University of Tulsa College of Law, we get the first retrospective on the Warren Court--a detailed analysis of the Courts accomplishments, including original pieces by well-known judges, professors, lawyers, popular writers such as Anthony Lewis, David Halberstam, David J. Garrow, and a rare personal remembrance by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. The Warren Court: A Retrospective begins with an examination of the Courts decisions in a variety of different fields, such as equal protection, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and criminal law. The work continues with The Justices, an intimate look at the principal protagonists in the Courts operation. Then, in A Broader Perspective, the book looks at the Court from an historical perspective, demonstrating its impact on the legal profession and jurisprudence, its international impact, and its legacy. Both readable and informative, The Warren Court: A Retrospective provides an invaluable source for anyone interested in the Court that did so much to change America.

Author : L. A. Scot Powe
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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About the United States Supreme Court during Earl Warren's term as United States Chief Justice and its involvement in politics.

Author : Morton J. Horwitz
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809016259

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A study of the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren, from 1953 to 1969, discussing the impact of the liberal court's civil rights and civil liberties decisions on American constitutional law.

Author : Thomas M. Keck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226428869

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When conservatives took control of the federal judiciary in the 1980s, it was widely assumed that they would reverse the landmark rights-protecting precedents set by the Warren Court and replace them with a broad commitment to judicial restraint. Instead, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Rehnquist has reaffirmed most of those liberal decisions while creating its own brand of conservative judicial activism. Ranging from 1937 to the present, The Most Activist Supreme Court in History traces the legal and political forces that have shaped the modern Court. Thomas M. Keck argues that the tensions within modern conservatism have produced a court that exercises its own power quite actively, on behalf of both liberal and conservative ends. Despite the long-standing conservative commitment to restraint, the justices of the Rehnquist Court have stepped in to settle divisive political conflicts over abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, presidential elections, and much more. Keck focuses in particular on the role of Justices O'Connor and Kennedy, whose deciding votes have shaped this uncharacteristically activist Court.

Author : Frederick P. Lewis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780847689927

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In this book, Frederick P. Lewis examines the legacy of the Warren Court, analyzing why the court's activism survived largely intact despite the efforts of four Republican presidents over a 20-year period to replace activist federal judges with jurists committed to judicial restraint. The Context of Judicial Activism will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of twentieth century constitutional history and the judicial process.

Author : Archibald Cox
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2014
Category : LAW
ISBN :

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The appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States in 1953 marked the opening of a new era in the nation's constitutional development. As Archibald Cox points out in his Preface, during the next fifteen years the Supreme Court rewrote, with profound social consequences, major constitutional doctrines governing race relations, the administration of criminal justice, and the operation of the political process. The extent and the rapidity of these changes raise grave questions concerning the nature and function of constitutional adjudication and the proper role of the Supreme Court in the national life. In these lectures, originally given in somewhat shorter form in Honolulu in the summer of 1967 under the joint auspices of Harvard Law School and the University of Hawaii, Mr. Cox describes the main lines of constitutional development under the Warren Court. He analyzes the underlying pressures involved and the long-range institutional consequences in terms of the distribution of governmental power. The central theme of Mr. Cox's book is embodied in his examination of the American paradox that invests the judicial branch with the responsibility of deciding "according to law" our most pressing and divisive social, economic, and political questions. Although not uncritical of the grounds on which several of the court's crucial decisions have been reached, Mr. Cox comes to the conclusion that the trend of the rulings has been "in keeping with the mainstream of American history-a bit progressive but also moderate, a bit humane but not sentimental, a bit idealistic but seldom doctrinaire, and in the long run essentially pragmatic-in short, in keeping with the true genius of our institutions."

Author : Bernard Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Appellate courts
ISBN : 0195104390

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Garrow, and a rare personal remembrance by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.