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The Psychology of the Supreme Court
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With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land. Who are the justices that run it and how do they make their decisions?
The Psychology of the Supreme Court by Lawrence S. Wrightsman is the first book to thoroughly examine the psychology of Supreme Court decision-making. Dr. Wrightsman’s book seeks to help us understand all aspects of t… More >>
The Psychology of the Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2: From “Higher Law” to “Sectarian Scruples”
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School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country is still fluid and changing. This, the second of two volumes by historian and legal scholar James Hitchcock, offers a complete analysis and interpretati… More >>
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2: From “Higher Law” to “Sectarian Scruples”
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I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases
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For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases
If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers’ rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions?
In offering thirteen famous dissents—fr… More >>
I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases
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Judicial Activism in Common Law Supreme Courts
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This book examines the way in which judges in the top courts of nine different common law countries go about developing the law by devising new principles to allow themselves to be innovative and justice-oriented, and to ensure that human rights are universally protected.
The book surveys the decisions of these top courts over the last generation to determine how ‘judicially active’ they have been. It seeks to compare and contrast the different experiences a… More >>
Judicial Activism in Common Law Supreme Courts
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Prepared and Published in Pursuance of a Statute Law of the State, Volume 2
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring … More >>
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