A01=David P. Currie
Author_David P. Currie
burger
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chief justice
civil rights
constitution
constitutional exegesis
contract clause
dissent
draft
economic interests
enumerated powers
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equality
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freedom
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fuller
history
industrial revolution
internment camps
interstate commerce
judicial system
juries
law
legal
liberty
new deal
nonfiction
opinion writing
political science
politics
prohibition
property
regulation
religion
search seizure
spending programs
supreme court
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- ISBN 9780226131122
- Weight: 1077g
- Dimensions: 17 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 1994
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century traces the development of the Supreme Court from Chief Justice Fuller (1888-1910) to the retirement of Chief Justice Burger (1969-1986). Currie argues that the Court's work in its second century revolved around two issues: the constitutionality of the regulatory and spending programs adopted to ameliorate the hardships caused by the Industrial Revolution and the need to protect civil rights and liberties. Organizing the cases around the tenure of specific chief justices, Currie distinguishes among the different methods of constitutional exegesis, analyzes the various techniques of opinion writing, and evaluates the legal performance of different Courts. "Elegant and readable. Whether you are in favor of judicial restraint or judicial activism, whatever your feelings about the Warren Court, or the Renquist Court, this is a book that justifies serious study."--Robert Stevens, New York Times Book Review
