Description: Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, small crease at front top left. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet, despite those and other achievements, conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority by supposedly imposing their own opinions on the nation.As the eminent legal scholars Geoffrey R. Stone and David A. Strauss demonstrate in Democracy and Equality, the Warren Court's approach to the Constitution was consistent with the most basic values of our Constitution and with the most fundamental responsibilities of our judiciary. Stone and Strauss describe the Warren Court's extraordinary achievements by reviewing its jurisprudence across a range of issues addressing our nation's commitment to the values of democracy and equality. In each chapter, they tell the story of a critical decision, exploring the historical and legal context of each case, the Court's reasoning, and how the justices of the Warren Court fulfilled the Court's most important responsibilities.This powerfully argued evaluation of the Warren Court's legacy, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Warren Court, both celebrates and defends the Warren Court's achievements against almost sixty-five years of unrelenting and unwarranted attacks by conservatives. It demonstrates not only why the Warren Court's approach to constituti
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Book Title: Democracy and Equality : the Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court
Item Length: 5.8in
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Author: David A. Strauss, Geoffrey R. Stone
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: American Government / Judicial Branch, Constitutional, Constitutions, Civil Rights, General, Lawyers & Judges
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Law, Political Science
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages, 216 Pages
