Selected legal cases illustrating leading principles of American law and political structure, ranging from governmental organization to civil rights

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1. Verfasser:	Marke, Julius J. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	South Hackensack, N.J. Rothman 1965
Schlagworte:	Constitutional law / United States / Cases Constitutional law Verfassungsrecht United States / Constitutional law / Cases United States USA
Zusammenfassung:	Selected legal cases illustrating leading principles of American law and political structure, ranging from governmental organization to civil rights
Beschreibung:	Includes index Marbury v. Madison : How Chief Justice Marshall confronted by a political dilemma, adroitly extablished the constitutional doctrine of judicial review -- The Saga of Gideon Olmsted -- Privateer : Of a tireless litigant, who was instrumental in securing the supremacy of the federal judiciary over the states (U.S. v. Peters) -- McCulloch v. Maryland : The story of a cause celebre which resolved the constitutional issue of a national power versus state sovereignty -- The Reporter and the Supreme Court : The birth pangs of Supreme Court reporting and how they affected the law of copyright (Wheaton v. Peters) -- The Dorr Revolution : The Civil War in Rhode Island over universal suffrage ; A non-justiciable political question? (Luther v. Borden) -- The Dred Scott Case : In which the Supreme Court imposed a political judgment and committed its greatest blunder -- Lincoln and Civil Liberties : Part I. Ex Parte Merryman -- Does a state of war suspend the Constitution? ; Part II. Ex Parte Vallandigham -- The Supreme Court refuses to review the acts of a military commission ; Part III. Ex Parte Milligan -- The Court reverses itself -- Ex Parte McCardle : Reconstruction: Congress versus the Court -- Slaughter-House Cases : The banded butchers and the Supreme Court, an historic construction of the 14th Amendment -- Five Knights and the King : An account of the long struggle to secure the liberty of the person by the Writ of Habeas Corpus -- Peine Forte Et Dure : How and why judicial torture was used to compel a defendant to plead in a criminal case -- Trial of William Penn : A landmark case in the development of the jury system -- Peter Zenger's Trial and Freedom of the Press : A report on a famous verdict in which a Philadelphia lawyer laid the cornerstone of the liberty of the press in the United States -- Writs of Assistance, Smugglers, and the American Revolution : How smugglers, free trade and the American Revolution were instrumental in evoking the Fourth Amendment -- Ashford v. Thornton : The Last Trial by Battle : A most unusual nineteenth century trial which finally caused the abolition of a strange legal practice -- Benefit of Clergy : Whereby a reading test was used to excape punishment for a crime -- Impeachment of Justice Chase : The Jeffersonian assault upon the independence of the judiciary and the only impeachment proceeding against a Supreme Court justice -- Bracton -- Father of Modern Law : The origin and significance of "the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence" -- Fortescue's De Laudibus : The first popular English law book -- Cowell's Interpreter : The saga of a controversial legal dictionary -- The Year Books : A recreation of the pomp and circumstance of a courtroom in medieval England
Beschreibung:	xv, 337 S. Illustrations, portraits