The law of the land : a history of the Supreme Court
Alternate Title: History of the Supreme Court
Summary: Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution. Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions.
Contents:
- The judicial power, jurisdiction, and the ages of the Supreme Court
- The establishment of judicial review: Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Privilege and creative destruction: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)
- Equality, slavery andthe Supreme Court: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
- Native American sovereignty and the Constitution: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
- Liberty to contract in the Industrial Age: Lochner v. New York (1905)
- Clear and present danger, the First Amendment, and total war: Abrams v. United States (1919)
- A switch in time?: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
- Japanese interment and total war: Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- Simple justice: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954, 1955)
- Abortion, women and equality: Roe v. Wade (1973)
- Presidential immunity and Watergate: United States v. Nixon (1974)
- The boundaries of discrimination: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- The ten greatest justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md.
, [Prince Frederick, Md.]
, Recorded Books
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Language(s): English
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Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution. Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions.
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