The Constitution, the Courts, and the Quest for Justice
Title | The Constitution, the Courts, and the Quest for Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Goldwin |
Publisher | A E I Press |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Law |
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Chief
Title | Chief PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald M. George |
Publisher | Berkeley Public Policy Press |
Total Pages | 846 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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"Based upon oral history interviews conducted by Laura McCreery, California Supreme Court Oral History Project."
Uncertain Justice
Title | Uncertain Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Tribe |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0805099093 |
An assessment of how the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is significantly influencing the nation's laws and reinterpreting the Constitution includes in-depth analysis of recent rulings and their implications.
The Pursuit of Justice
Title | The Pursuit of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Kermit L. Hall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2006-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195311892 |
Reviews and discusses landmark cases heard by the United States Supreme court from 1803 through 2000.
Quest for Justice
Title | Quest for Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Jaffe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-03-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780999472828 |
Richard Jaffe's explosive second edition of Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned affirms the vital role criminal defense lawyers play in the balance between life and death, liberty and lockup. It is a compelling journey into the legal and human drama of life or death criminal cases that often reads more like hard to imagine fiction, yet these cases are real. Quest for Justice invites readers into the courtroom and into the field with Richard Jaffe, a powerhouse Alabama defense attorney with more than four decades of experience, who has successfully defended hundreds of individuals accused of murder, including more than seventy cases where the defendant faced the death penalty, including the Olympic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, in Alabama, nine people have been exonerated from death row-Jaffe represented four of them: James Willie "Bo" Cochran, Randal Padgett, Gary Drinkard, and Wesley Quick. Though every chapter reveals more alarming, gut-wrenching cases, and impediments to justice, Jaffe's unwavering determination, hope, and strategies in the courtroom yield many momentous victories for his clients and the cause of justice. In Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned, Richard Jaffe offers all audiences an accessible, page-turning perspective borne out of a life representing the damned in America's criminal justice system.
Liberty, Order, and Justice
Title | Liberty, Order, and Justice PDF eBook |
Author | James McClellan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 664 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
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This new Liberty Fund edition of James McClellan's classic work on the quest for liberty, order, and justice in England and America includes the author's revisions to the original edition published in 1989 by the Center for Judicial Studies. Unlike most textbooks in American Government, Liberty, Order, and Justice seeks to familiarize the student with the basic principles of the Constitution, and to explain their origin, meaning, and purpose. Particular emphasis is placed on federalism and the separation of powers. These features of the book, together with its extensive and unique historical illustrations, make this new edition of Liberty, Order, and Justice especially suitable for introductory classes in American Government and for high school students in advanced placement courses.
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Title | Keeping Faith with the Constitution PDF eBook |
Author | Goodwin Liu |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199752834 |
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.