Dissent and the Supreme Court : its role in the Court's history and the nation's constitutional dialogue /
Melvin Urofsky's major new book looks at the role of dissent in the Supreme Court and the meaning of the Constitution through the greatest and longest lasting public-policy debate in the country's history, among members of the Supreme Court, between the Court and the other branches of gove...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dissent and the constitutional dialogue
- From Seriatim to the opinion of the court
- From Marshall to Dred Scott
- Field, slaughterhouse, and Munn
- John Marshall Harlan : the first great dissenter
- Mis-en-scène 1 : Harlan and Holmes in Lochner v. New York
- Holmes and Brandeis dissenting
- Mis-en-scène 2 : Brandeis in Olmstead v. United States
- The return of Seriatim : causes
- The prima donnas I : personalities and issues of wartime
- Mis-en-scène 3 : Wiley Rutledge and in re Yamashita
- The prima donnas II : incorporation, criminal procedure, and free speech
- Mis-en-scène 4 : black in Betts v. Brady
- Lower federal courts, the states, and foreign tribunals
- Continuing themes : from Warren to Roberts
- Mis-en-scène 5 : Marshall, Brennan, and capital punishment
- Coda.