Judicial Branch of the Federal Government
Purpose, Process, and People
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2010
345 pages
978-1-61530-037-2 (ISBN)
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The system of courts in the United States serves to enforce the laws of the nation as well as act as a check to make sure the other branches of government obey the powers set forth by the Constitution. Through a series of landmark court cases, chronicled
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The Judicial Branch of the Federal Government
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Content
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: CONSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND
- THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
- CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
- PROVISIONS
- CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS
- THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
- THE CONSTITUTION AS A LIVING DOCUMENT
- SEPARATION OF POWERS AND CHECKS AND BALANCES
- SEPARATION OF POWERS
- CHECKS AND BALANCES
- THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
- FEDERAL VERSUS STATE POWER: STATES' RIGHTS AND NULLIFICATION
- STATES' RIGHTS
- NULLIFICATION
- FEDERAL SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT
- WRITTEN CONSTITUTION
- NONCENTRALIZATION
- A REAL DIVISION OF POWER
- ELEMENTS MAINTAINING UNION
- ELEMENTS MAINTAINING THE FEDERAL PRINCIPLE
- Chapter 2: THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERMENT
- THE JUDICIARY IN PERSPECTIVE
- JUDICIAL LEGITIMACY
- COURTS IN THE COMMON-LAW TRADITION
- FUNCTIONS OF COURTS
- KEEPING THE PEACE
- DECIDING DISPUTES
- JUDICIAL LAWMAKING
- CONSTITUTIONAL DECISIONS
- PROCEDURAL RULE MAKING
- REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS
- ENFORCEMENT OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS
- TYPES OF COURTS
- CRIMINAL COURTS
- CIVIL COURTS
- COURTS OF GENERAL JURISDICTION
- COURTS OF LIMITED JURISDICTION
- APPELLATE COURTS
- JUDGES
- Chapter 3: JUDICIAL REVIEW
- VARIETIES OF JUDICIAL REVIEW
- JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE UNITED STATES
- APPLICATIONS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW
- Chapter 4: COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES
- THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
- SCOPE AND JURISDICTION
- SIZE, MEMBERSHIP, AND ORGANIZATION
- PROCEDURES AND POWER
- HISTORICAL TRENDS
- APPELLATE COURTS
- DISTRICT COURTS
- Chapter 5: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE FEDERAL COURT
- SLAVERY
- POLITICAL BACKGROUND: SECTIONAL CONFLICT OF THE 1840S AND '50S
- THE DRED SCOTT DECISION
- SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION
- RACIAL SEGREGATION
- JIM CROW LAWS
- "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL": PLESSY V. FERGUSON
- EQUAL PROTECTION COMES OF AGE
- CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION OF THE 1960S
- BUSING
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- Chapter 6: ISSUES AND CASES IN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
- DUE PROCESS
- THE MEANING OF DUE PROCESS
- THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE CASES
- FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
- THE PENTAGON PAPERS AND THE PROGRESSIVE
- HABEAS CORPUS
- HISTORY OF HABEAS CORPUS
- OBSCENITY
- THE LEGAL CONCEPT OF OBSCENITY
- PRIVACY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
- RIGHTS OF PRIVACY
- ABORTION
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE LAW
- THE COMPLEXITY OF THE DEBATE
- SELF-INCRIMINATION
- THE CONCEPT OF SELF-INCRIMINATION
- SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
- THE CONCEPT OF CHURCH AND STATE
- Chapter 7: JUSTICES AND JURISTS
- THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT
- JOHN ROBERTS, JR.
- JOHN PAUL STEVENS
- ANTONIN SCALIA
- ANTHONY KENNEDY
- CLARENCE THOMAS
- RUTH BADER GINSBURG
- STEPHEN BREYER
- SAMUEL A. ALITO, JR.
- SONIA SOTOMAYOR
- PAST CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT
- JOHN JAY
- JOHN RUTLEDGE
- OLIVER ELLSWORTH
- JOHN MARSHALL
- ROGER TANEY
- MORRISON REMICK WAITE
- MELVILLE WESTON FULLER
- EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE
- WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
- CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
- HARLAN FISKE STONE
- FRED MOORE VINSON
- EARL WARREN
- WARREN EARL BURGER
- WILLIAM REHNQUIST
- NOTABLE PAST JUSTICES AND JURISTS
- SAMUEL CHASE
- WILLIAM JOHNSON
- JOSEPH STORY
- JOHN MCLEAN
- SAMUEL MILLER
- STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
- LOUIS BRANDEIS
- JOHN HESSIN CLARKE
- OWEN JOSEPHUS ROBERTS
- BENJAMIN CARDOZO
- LEARNED HAND
- HUGO LA FAYETTE BLACK
- FELIX FRANKFURTER
- WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
- JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN
- WILLIAM BRENNAN, JR.
- THURGOOD MARSHALL
- HARRY BLACKMUN
- LEWIS POWELL, JR.
- SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
- DAVID SOUTER
- Appendix: Table of Supreme Court Justices
- Glossary
- For Further Reading
- Index
- Back Cover
