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Reconsidering Judicial Finality : Why the Supreme Court Is Not the Last Word on the Constitution
Reconsidering Judicial Finality : Why the Supreme Court Is Not the Last Word on the Constitution
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Author(s): Fisher, Louis
ISBN No.: 9780700636075
Pages: 288
Year: 202307
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 42.62
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Preface Note on Citations 1. Early Claims of Judicial Finality -Debating Judicial Review -Who Has the Final Word? -Influence of John Marshall -William Marbury's Lawsuit -Additional Lessons -Reflections on Marbury -Continuing Debate 2. Selections by Chief Justice Hughes -Dred Scott's Case -Reactions to Dred Scott -Legal Tender Cases -Income Tax Cases 3. Rights of Blacks -Opposition to Slavery -The Civil War -Congressional Safeguards, Judicial Opposition -Access to Public Facilities -"Separate but Equal" Doctrine - Brown v. Board -The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -Judicial Resort to Busing -A Continuing Dialogue 4. Rights of Women -Doctrine of Coverture -Myra Bradwell's Initiatives -Belva Lockwood Goes to Congress -Judicial Rulings from 1875 to 1971 -Equal Rights Amendment -Equal Pay for Women -Equal Pay for Women -Lilly Ledbetter Seeks Justice -Additional Disputes 5. Regulating Commerce -Wheeling Bridge Cases -Controls on Intoxicating Liquors -Liberty of Contract -Congress and Child Labor -Court-Packing Plan -Child Labor Returns 6. The Sole-Organ Doctrine -Problems with Dicta -The Issue in Curtiss-Wright -Treaty Negotiation -Marshall's Sole-Organ Speech -Jerusalem Passport Case -The Supreme Court's Opinion -Creating a New Presidential Model 7.


Privacy Rights -Mandatory Sterilization -Defining Obscenity -Use of Contraceptives -Abortion Rights -Reexamining Roe 8. Religious Liberty -Protecting Minority Rights -Forming Constitutional Principles -Military Chaplains -Quakers and Military Service -Compulsory Flag Salutes -The Yarmulke Case 9. Japanese-American Cases -Roosevelt's Executive Order -Detention Camps -Evaluating the Court -Fraud Against the Court -Analysis by Peter Irons -Acknowledging Judicial Error 10. State Secrets Privilege -Aaron Burr's Trial -Civil War Precedent -Three Widows in Court -At the Appellate Level -The Supreme Court Decides -Fraud Against the Court -Contemporary Issues 11. Legislative Vetoes -Origins of the Legislative Veto -Presidential Reorganization Authority -"Come into Agreement" Provisions -Challenges by President Carter - INS v. Chadha -Legislative Vetoes After Chadha -Presidential Signing Statements -Some Lessons 23. Campaign Finance -Sources of Judicial Error -Congressional Legislation -Continued Errors about Santa Clara - Buckley v. Valeo -Judicial Attacks on Buckley - Citizens United -Responses to Citizens United Conclusions About the Author Index of Cases Index of Subjects.



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