Cases and Controversies Civil Rights and Liberties in Context

Name: Cases and Controversies Civil Rights and Liberties in Context
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ISBN: 9780130456243

ISBN-10: 0130456241

ISBN-13: 9780130456243

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peter Irons

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This casebookcontaining longer excerpts than those found in most other books includes cases from important Supreme Court opinions and material that places these cases and the issues they raise in a broad political, historical, and social context. The volume presents Supreme Court challenges and land mark decisions involving wartime protest and hysteria; the Great Depression; and conflicts over issues such as abortion. A focus on the characters who make up the stories of constitutional lawsuch as Dred Scott, Homer Plessy, Lillian Gobitis, Gordon Hirabayashi, Mary Beth Tinker, and Michael Hardwickadds human faces and voices to the Supreme Court opinions, and introduces the fascinating…

Book details

List price: $173.73
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 9/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Peter Irons is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He lives in San Diego, California.




The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and Judicial Review



To Form a More Perfect Union



To Say What the Law Is



The First Amendment: Religion, Speech, Press, and Assembly



An Establishment of Religion



The Free Exercise of Religion



Freedom of Speech



Freedom of the Press



Freedom of Assembly and Association



Race, Gender, and the Equal Protection Clause



Race: Slavery and Segregation



Schools: Separate and Unequal



The Bill of Rights at War: The Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans



Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action



Gender and the Constitution



The Right to Privacy and the Due Process Clause



Sterilization, Contraception, and Abortion



The Rights of Gays and Lesbians



The Right to Die


United States Constitution


Justices of the Supreme Court