The Supreme Court
Subtitle: Rulings on American Government and Society
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Lanahan Publishers Inc.
Published: January 15, 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781930398085
Subjects: Law; History / United States
Description: From the 1987 televised Senate Judiciary Committe hearings on President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court to the recent hearings on President Bush's nomination of John Roberts to become Chief Justice, it is clear that Americans' interest in how the Court's rulings on social issues might affect their lives is at an all-time high. Today, similarly-concerned students enroll in courses on American Government, the Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Introduction to Law, and the American Judiciary as never before. In this brief book, Jack Fruchtman Jr. provides for these courses an anthology of edited rulings from the Court -- some landmark, many contemporary, along with topic introductions and case head notes. Here, students will examine the Court's own words, logic, and thinking on the major issues of the day, among them, freedom of speech, separation of church and state, law enforcement, affirmative action, gender discrimination, abortion and privacy. - Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The Constitution, American democracy, and the Supreme Court; title: Organizing government and sharing powers; title: Expression and the religion clauses; title: Equal protection of the laws; title: Due process of law and rights of the accused; title: Privacy; title: Appendix : The United States Constitution