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Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Stephen Breyer, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Earl Warren, and Thurgood Marshall. Astute, provocative, and extremely accessible, A People's History of the Supreme Court illuminates and pays tribute to a system of justice that both reflects and parallels our country's remarkable legal history.
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A People's History of the Supreme Court, Peter Irons, Howard Zinn
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- Publicado en
- 1999
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- Título
- A People's History of the Supreme Court
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Peter Irons, Howard Zinn
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 542
- ISBN10
- 0140292012
- ISBN13
- 9780140292015
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Derecho, Política, Literatura americana, Historia de EE. UU.
- Descripción
- Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Stephen Breyer, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Earl Warren, and Thurgood Marshall. Astute, provocative, and extremely accessible, A People's History of the Supreme Court illuminates and pays tribute to a system of justice that both reflects and parallels our country's remarkable legal history.