Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910

Name: Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910
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ISBN: 9780521860277

ISBN-10: 052186027X

ISBN-13: 9780521860277

Edition: 2006

Authors: Owen M. Fiss, Stanley N. Katz

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A highly interpretive and eminently readable study of the Supreme Court during the period in which Melvin Fuller was Chief Justice, offering a complete account of the cases the Court saw during one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history. The legacy of the Supreme Court at the turn of the century has largely been negative: decisions such as Lochner v. New York (1905), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), In re Debs (1895), and Plessy v. Ferguson have been seen by subsequent generations of lawyers and judges as embodying a judicial method and philosophy that should be avoided at all costs. This book places these decisions in their historical context. It rejects the crude…

Book details

List price: $134.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 446
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.45" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.760



Illustrations


Foreword


Editor's Foreword



The Legacy of Negative Examples



Legitimacy and History



The Identity of the Institution



Class Conflict and the Supreme Court



Debs and the Maintenance of Public Order



Pollock-The Redistributive Function Denied



The Response to Progressivism


Preface to Part Three



The Antitrust Campaign



Labor Legislation and the Theory of Lochner



Rate Regulation: The Assault on Munn v. Illinois



The Concept of the Nation



The American Empire?



Federalism and Liberty



Liberty Dishonored


Preface to Part Five



The Chinese Cases: Citizenship and the Claims of Procedure



The Early Free Speech Cases



Plessy, Alas


Conclusion



The End of a Tradition?


Acknowledgments


Table of Cases


Index