Supremely American

Author : Nicholas E. Tawa
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810852952
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supremely American written by Nicholas E. Tawa and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the way in which popular words and music relate to American life. The question of what popular song was, and why it came into existence, as well as how each song fitted within the context of the larger 20th century society are considered and explained clearly and fruitfully. The author also offers insight into why musical styles were seen to change as they did during this time period.

Author : Jeffrey A. Segal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780384
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court in the American Legal System written by Jeffrey A. Segal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the American legal system, including a comprehensive treatment of the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite this treatment, the 'in' from the title deserves emphasis, for it extensively examines lower courts, providing separate chapters on state courts, the US District Courts, and the US Courts of Appeals. The book analyzes these courts from a legal/extralegal framework, drawing different conclusions about the relative influence of each based on institutional structures and empirical evidence. The book is also tied together through its attention to the relationship between lower courts and the Supreme Court. Additionally, Election 2000 litigation provides a common substantive topic linking many of the chapters. Finally, it provides extended coverage to the legal process, with separate chapters on civil procedure, evidence, and criminal procedure.

Author : Lucas A. Powe, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700632816
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2020 written by Lucas A. Powe, Jr. and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2020, Expanded Second Edition is a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book on US history, where the Supreme Court appears, if at all, as an interruption here and there, or, in a typical history of the Supreme Court, where political events intrude occasionally, Lucas A. Powe, Jr., situates the Court and its work into a broad narrative of American history. Powe places the Court within the context of history and the insights of political science while remaining true to the ways the justices perceived their own work. Instead of viewing the Court as a competitor with the other two branches of government (although occasionally it is), Powe views it as a part of a ruling regime doing its part to implement the regime’s policies. Some of its most historically controversial decisions are far less so when set within the politics of the time. Justices are, after all, as subject to the same economic, social, and intellectual currents as other upper-middle-class professional elites. The book’s dominant theme is that the Court is a majoritarian institution—that is, it identifies with and serves ruling political coalitions. The justices are for the most part in tune with their times. Relatedly, changes in personnel matter; a president able to appoint several justices can, and does, change the direction of the Court. Thus, the Court and its decisions have moved to the center of presidential politics. This new edition adds two chapters detailing the history of the Court since 2008, including how the Court has changed election law, its entrance into the healthcare controversies, expansion of LBGTQ rights, and the 2020 Census controversies. The first new chapter looks at the centrist jurisprudence of Justice Anthony Kennedy and his dominant presence as the decisive vote in a series of 5–4 decisions. The second looks at the toxic partisan political climate in the aftermath of Justice Scalia’s death and Republican control of the Court.

Author : James D. Zirin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266376
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supremely Partisan written by James D. Zirin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the left and Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the right. He also examines four of the Court’s most controversial recent decisions – Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, gay marriage, and capital punishment – arguing that these politicized decisions threaten to undermine public confidence in the Supreme Court.

Author : John Massaro
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438412193
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supremely Political written by John Massaro and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon revealing and generally unpublished presidential papers associated with Lyndon Johnson's ill-fated nomination of Abe Fortas, and Richard Nixon's failed designations of Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, and culminating in a lively investigation of the Bork and Ginsburg cases, the author convincingly demonstrates that the Senate's negative actions can be traced to the exciting interplay of three factors. The author demonstrates that these decisions are based not only upon the nominee's ideology and the timing of the nomination, but also on the president's management of the confirmation process. He vividly illustrates that most failed nominations can be attributed to unwise choices, disastrous miscalculations, and outright blunders made by the presidents during the confirmation process. While other scholars have explained unsuccessful nominations by employing the factors of ideology and timing, the author breaks new and fertile ground in highlighting the role of presidential management in his explanation.

Author : James L. Roberts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544179498
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CliffsNotes on James' The American written by James L. Roberts and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-03-03 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

Author : Lee Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019150534X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior written by Lee Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior offers readers a comprehensive introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook describes and explains how the courts' political and social context, formal institutional structures, and informal norms affect judicial decision making. The Handbook also explores the impact of judges' personal attributes and preferences, as well as prevailing legal doctrine, influence, and shape case outcomes in state and federal courts. The volume also proposes avenues for future research in the various topics addressed throughout the book. Consultant Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III.

Author : Joan Biskupic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court written by Joan Biskupic and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019530604X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of the Supreme Court written by Lawrence S. Wrightsman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the psychology of Supreme Court decision-making, this book seeks to understand almost all aspects of the Supreme Court's functioning from a psychological perspective. It addresses many factors of influence, including the background of the justices, how they are nominated and appointed, the role of their law clerks, and more.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: