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  • Thurgood Marshall

    His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

    Edited by Mark V. Tushnet ...
    Series series The Library of Black America series
    Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army, speeches and articles outlining the history of civil rights and criticizing the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court opinions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red, White, and Blue

    A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law

    by Mark V. Tushnet ...
    Series series Constitutional Thinking
    The first paperback edition of a classic of American constitutional theory. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I Professor Tushnet appraises the five major competing “grand theories” of constitutional law and interpretation, and, argues that none of them satisfy their own requirements for coherence and judicial constraint. In Part II the author offers a descriptive sociology of ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Out of Range

    Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle over Guns

    by Mark V. Tushnet ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Few constitutional disputes maintain as powerful a grip on the public mind as the battle over the Second Amendment. The National Rifle Association and gun-control groups struggle unceasingly over a piece of the political landscape that no candidate for the presidency--and few for Congress--can afford to ignore. But who's right? Will it ever be possible to settle the argument? In Out of Range, one ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950

    by Mark V. Tushnet ...
    The NAACP’s fight against segregated education — the first public interest litigation campaign — culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and the political and legal skills ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Free Speech Beyond Words

    The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment

    by Mark V. Tushnet, Alan K. Chen, Joseph Blocher ...
    A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsenseThe Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Hughes Court: Volume 11

    From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941

    by Mark V. Tushnet ...
    Series series Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
    The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another. This comprehensive study of the Supreme Court from 1930 to 1941 – when Charles Evans Hughes was Chief Justice – shows how nearly all justices, even the most conservative, accepted the broad premises of a Progressive theory of government and ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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  • Injustices

    The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

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  • Men in Black

    How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

    by Mark R. Levin ...
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  • The Words We Live By

    Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution

    by Linda R. Monk ...
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  • The Majesty of the Law

    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    by Alexander Keyssar ...
    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... Read more

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