The great reversals
Subtitle: tales of the Supreme Court
By: by Morris L. Ernst.
Publisher: Weybright and Talley
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court
Description: One of the earliest reversals demonstrated that the laws we inherited from settled England were not necessarily fitting or just when applied to a wilderness society. Another early reversal extended the rights of citizenship to corporations because, as companies grew and ownership multiplied, lawsuits that involved every stockholder would have become hopelessly complicated. Later the Court reversed itself on such landmark issues as paper money, income taxes, censorship, segregation, and women's rights. Shows the influence of men like Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes and Earl Warren on the Supreme Court.