Liberty and union : a constitutional history of the United States. Volume 2 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McManus, Edgar J. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Helfman, Tara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Acknowledgments; Preface; XIV Progressivism and the New Nationalism; Political Reform; Expanding Federal Power; Changes in Court Personnel; Federal Police Powers Upheld; Restraints on the States; Trust-Busting and the Court; Stream of Commerce Theory; The Rule of Reason Doctrine; Labor Unions and the Sherman Act; Reviving and Strengthening the ICC; The New Freedom; Federal Reserve System; Judiciary Act of 1914; The Sixteenth Amendment; Direct Election of Senators; The Prohibition Amendment.
  • Women's Rights Problems of Empire; The Insular Cases; The Legacy of Progressivism; XV World War I and the Constitution; Sinking of the Lusitania; Mobilizing for Total War; Wartime Thought Control; Suppressing Dissent; War Powers Cases; First Amendment Rights; War Powers and the Court; Rejection of the League of Nations; XVI Normalcy and Reaction; "Robust Republicanism"; Corruption and Scandal; The Coolidge Administration; Storm Warnings for the Economy; The "Noble Experiment"; Repeal of Prohibition; New Justices Appointed to the Court; The Taft Court.
  • Organized Labor and the Court The Federal Commerce Power; The Treaty Power; Federal Grants-in-Aid; Executive Power of Removal; Liberty and the Court; Taft's Legacy; Hoover's Appointments; Extending the Guarantees of the Bill of Rights; XVII The New Deal Revolution; Roosevelt Takes Charge; Saving the Banks; Recovery Measures; The Second New Deal; Constitutional Problems; State Recovery Measures; Public Interest Doctrine Abandoned; Gold Clause Cases; New Deal Setbacks; Roosevelt and the Court; Roosevelt's Court Plan; Consequences of the Court Fight.
  • Congressional OppositionXVIII The New Constitutionalism; The Commerce Power Unrestrained; The Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine; No Federal Common Law; Selective Incorporation of the Bill of Rights; The Total Incorporation Theory; Expanding First Amendment Rights; Political Dissent; The Preferred Rights Doctrine; Religious Freedom; Jehovah's Witnesses Cases; The Establishment Clause; Some Racial Justice; The White Primary; A New Constitutional Focus; XIX World War II and the Constitution; Waging Total War; Internment of Japanese-Americans.
  • Military Trial of Civilians Jurisdiction over Enemy Military Personnel; War Crimes Trials; War Powers in Peacetime; Wartime Treason; Evaluating the Wartime Court; XX The Era of the Cold War; The Korean War; War Powers of the President Limited; Internal Subversion; The Truman Loyalty Order; The McCarran Act; The Fair Deal; Presidential Succession; Twenty-Second Amendment; Truman's Court Appointments; Civil Liberties under Siege; Smith Act Prosecutions; State Loyalty Programs; The Federal Loyalty Program; Some Racial Justice.