Making Constitutional Law - Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991

Zusatztext ... comprehensive and well researched. It is, without question, a valuable contribution to the existing literature on this historic figure. Klappentext Following on Making Civil Rights Law! which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961! this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991! where he was the first African-American Justice. Based on thorough research in the Supreme Court papers of Justice Marshall and others! this book describes Marshall's approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It locates the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991 in a broader socio-political context! showing how the nation's drift toward conservatism affected the Court's debates and decisions. Zusammenfassung Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice. The first book on Justice Thurgood Marshall's years on the Supreme Court based on a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court papers of Justices Marshall and William J. Brennan, this work describes Marshall's special approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It also describes the Supreme Court's operations during Marshall's tenure, the relations among the justices, and the particular roles played by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Justice Brennan, and Justice Antonin Scalia. The book locates the Supreme Court's actions from 1967 to 1991 in a broader historical and political context, explaining how Marshall's liberalism became increasingly isolated on a Court influenced by nation's drift in a more conservative direction.

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• Authors: Mark Tushnet, Mark (Associate Dean and Professor of Law Tushnet, Mark V. Tushnet, Tushnet Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1997
• EAN: 9780195093148
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509314-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Courts, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Trial Practice, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Human rights, civil rights, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general