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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

The Supreme Court and American Legal Thought

By: Sophie Littlefield,William Wiecek

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

The Supreme Court and American Legal Thought

By: Sophie Littlefield,William Wiecek

Presents the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, who was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1404226524

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9781404226524

The Fourteenth Amendment

From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

By: William E. Nelson

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The Fourteenth Amendment

From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

By: William E. Nelson

In a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, William Nelson argues that the fourteenth amendment was written to affirm the general public's long-standing rhetorical commitment to the principles of equality and individual rights on the one hand, and to the principle of local self-rule on the other.

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284

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Harvard University Press

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0674041429

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9780674041424

Diminishing the Bill of Rights

Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty

By: William Davenport Mercer

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Diminishing the Bill of Rights

Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty

By: William Davenport Mercer

The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore’s rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at Barron and Craig’s wharf. By the time the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1833, the issue had become whether the city’s actions constituted a taking of property by the state without just compensation, a violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The high court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore marked a critical step in the rapid evolution of law and constitutional rights during the first half of the nineteenth century. Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of this decision as a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights. Since the colonial period, Americans had viewed their rights as springing from multiple sources, including the common law, natural right, and English legal tradition. Despite this rich heritage and a prohibition grounded in the Magna Carta against uncompensated state takings of property, the Court ruled against Barron’s claim. The Bill of Rights, Chief Justice John Marshall declared in his opinion for the majority, restrained only the federal government, not the states. The Fifth Amendment, accordingly, did not apply to Maryland or any of the cities it chartered. In explaining how the Court came to reject a multisourced view of human liberties—a position seemingly inconsistent with its previous decisions—William Davenport Mercer helps explain why we now envision the Constitution as essential to guaranteeing our rights. Marshall’s view of rights in Barron, Mercer argues, helped him navigate the Court through the precarious political currents of the time. While the chief justice may have effected a shrewd political maneuver, the decision helped hasten a reconceptualization of rights as located in documents. Its legacy, as Mercer’s work makes clear, is among the Jacksonian era’s significant democratic reforms and marks the emergence of a distinctly American constitutionalism.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806158662

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Escape from Folsom Prison

The True Story of William Jennings Bryan Burke

By: William Jennings Bryan Burke

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Escape from Folsom Prison

The True Story of William Jennings Bryan Burke

By: William Jennings Bryan Burke

This is the true story of William Jennings Bryan Burke who escaped from Folsom Prison in 1929 by hiding in a coffin!

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0978648315

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Figures of Speech

First Amendment Heroes and Villains (16pt Large Print Edition)

By: William Bennett Turner

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First Amendment Heroes and Villains (16pt Large Print Edition)

By: William Bennett Turner

Examines First Amendment cases throughout history, discussing Yetta Stromberg, Dannie Martin, Raymond Procunier, Earl Caldwell, Larry Flynt, Clinton Fein, and others, and describing the impact of Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Ku Klux Klansmen, prison wardens, and others have had on First Amendment rights in the United States. Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner shows how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech. His strange cast of heroes and villains, some drawn from cases he litigated, includes Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Ku Klux Klansmen, the world's leading pornographer, prison wardens, dogged reporters, federal judges, a computer whiz, and a counterculture comedian. Offers a brief and insightful history of speaking up and facing the consequences.

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0369371178

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Figures of Speech

First Amendment Heroes and Villains

By: William Turner

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First Amendment Heroes and Villains

By: William Turner

Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner - a Berkeley law professor who has argued three cases before the Supreme Court - shows how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech. His strange cast of heroes and villains, some drawn from cases he has litigated...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459627725

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9781459627727

The Fourth Amendment

Origins and Original Meaning, 602-1791

By: William John Cuddihy

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The Fourth Amendment

Origins and Original Meaning, 602-1791

By: William John Cuddihy

The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure provides the bulwark for police regulation and many other government functions in the United States. This book tells the full story of its complex lineage, including its intellectual roots in England.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195367197

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9780195367195

Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment

Enforcing Liberty and Equality in the States

By: William B. Glidden

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Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment

Enforcing Liberty and Equality in the States

By: William B. Glidden

The discrepancy between the fourteenth amendment’s true meaning as originally understood, and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of its meaning over time, has been dramatic and unfortunate. The amendment was intended to be a constitutional rule for the promotion and protection of people’s rights, administered by the states as front-line regulators of life, liberty, and property, to be overseen by Congress and supported by federal legislation as necessary. In this book, William B. Glidden makes the case that instead, the amendment has operated as a judge-dominated, negative rights-against-government regime, supervised by the Supreme Court. Whenever Congress has enacted legislation to protect life, liberty, or property rights of people in the states, the laws were often overturned, narrowly construed, or forced to rely on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, under the Supreme Court’s constraining interpretations. Glidden proposes that Congress must recover for itself or be restored to its proper role as the designated federal enforcement agency for the fourteenth amendment.

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Lexington Books

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0739185748

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Escape from Folsom Prison

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