World War I and the American Constitution

Informationen zum Autor William G. Ross is the Lucille Stewart Beeson Professor of Law at Samford University, Alabama. His previous books include A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890–1937 (1994), Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, and the Constitution (1994), and The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930–1941 (2007). Klappentext World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law.World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law. Ross examines the social, political, economic and legal forces that generated rapid change in traditional understandings of constitutional relationships, and how war laid the foundations for the modern administrative state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Military conscription; 2. Economic regulation; 3. Labor; 4. Enfranchisement of women; 5. Prohibition of alcohol; 6. Racial minorities; 7. Personal liberties; 8. The League of Nations; Conclusion; Index.

Product details

• Authors: William G. Ross, William G. (Samford University Ross, Ross William G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107094642
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09464-2
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution; Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I