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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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John V. United States of America
Author: The Judicial Power of the United States
Author: John V. OrthPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195040996
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Eleventh Amendment is one of the most obscure and sharply debated parts of the United States Constitution. The interpretation of this seeminly simple clause has troubled the Supreme Court at crucial periods in American history, and continues to excite sharp debate in the Court today. John V. Orth reconstructs the fascinating but little-known past of the Eleventh Amendment and connects it to pressing modern issues to provide new insight into the history of judicial interpretation.
Due Process of Law
Author: John V. OrthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Mindful of the English background and of constitutional developments in the several states, Orth in a succinct and readable narrative traces the history of due process, from its origins in medieval England to its applications in the latest cases. Departing from the usual approach to American constitutional law, Orth places the history of due process in the larger context of the common law. To a degree not always appreciated today, constitutional law advances in the same case-by-case manner as other legal rules. In that light, Orth concentrates on the general maxims or paradigms that guided the judges in their decisions of specific cases. Uncovering the links between one case and another, Orth describes how a commitment to fair procedures made way for an emphasis on the protection of property rights, which in turn led to a heightened sensitivity to individual rights in general.
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Author: United States Court Of AppealsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365772200
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Excerpt from United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: John G. Moran, Plaintiff in Error, Vs. United States of America, Defendant in Error, Joseph Bruno and W. E. Smith, Defendants; Transcript of Record; Upon Writ of Error to the United States District Court, for the Southern District of California You are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at a United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, to be held at the City of San Francisco, in the State of California, on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1925, pursuant to a Writ of Error in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of California, in that certain action wherein the United States of America is Plaintiff vs Joseph Bruno, John G. Moran and et al are defendants and you are to show cause, if any there be, why the Judgment made, rendered and entered in the 7th day of March 1925 in the said action mentioned, should not be corrected, and speedy justice should not be done to the parties in that behalf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
John Lennon Vs. the USA
Author: Leon WildesPublisher: Ankerwycke
ISBN: 9781634254267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New York immigration attorney Leon Wildes tells the incredible story of this landmark case --John Lennon vs. The USA --- that set up a battle of wills between John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and President Richard Nixon. Although Wildes did not even know who John Lennon and Yoko Ono were when he was originally retained by them, he developed a close relationship with them both during the eventual five-year period while he represented them and thereafter.
Brown v. Board of Education
Author: James T. PattersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!" Here, in a concise, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?
Reassessing the Presidency
Author: David GordonPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610166140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
American Despots
Amazing low sale price in defense of authentic freedom as versus the presidency that betrayed it!
Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willing to overlook the despotic actions of the United States' own presidents? You can scour libraries from one end to the other and encounter precious few criticisms of America's worst despots.
The founders imagined that the president would be a collegial leader with precious little power who constantly faced the threat of impeachment. Today, however, the president orders thousands of young men and women to danger and death in foreign lands, rubber stamps regulations that throw enterprises into upheaval, controls the composition of the powerful Federal Reserve, and manages the priorities millions of swarms of bureaucrats that vex the citizenry in every way.
It is not too much of a stretch to say that the president embodies the Leviathan state as we know it. Or, more precisely, it is not an individual president so much as the very institution of the presidency that has been the major impediment of liberty. The presidency as the founders imagined it has been displaced by democratically ratified serial despotism. And, for that reason, it must be stopped.
Every American president seems to strive to make the historians' A-list by doing big and dramatic things—wars, occupations, massive programs, tyrannies large and small—in hopes of being considered among the "greats" such as Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR. They always imagine themselves as honored by future generations: the worse their crimes, the more the accolades.
Well, the free ride ends with Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom, edited by John Denson.
This remarkable volume (825 pages including index and bibliography) is the first full-scale revision of the official history of the U.S. executive state. It traces the progression of power exercised by American presidents from the early American Republic up to the eventual reality of the power-hungry Caesars which later appear as president in American history. Contributors examine the usual judgments of the historical profession to show the ugly side of supposed presidential greatness. 
The mission inherent in this undertaking is to determine how the presidency degenerated into the office of American Caesar. Did the character of the man who held the office corrupt it, or did the power of the office, as it evolved, corrupt the man? Or was it a combination of the two? Was there too much latent power in the original creation of the office as the Anti-Federalists claimed? Or was the power externally created and added to the position by corrupt or misguided men?
There's never been a better guide to everything awful about American presidents. No, you won't get the civics text approach of see no evil. Essay after essay details depredations that will shock you, and wonder how American liberty could have ever survived in light of the rule of these people.
Contributors include George Bittlingmayer, John V. Denson, Marshall L. DeRosa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lowell Gallaway, Richard M. Gamble, David Gordon, Paul Gottfried, Randall G. Holcombe, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Michael Levin, Yuri N. Maltsev, William Marina, Ralph Raico, Joseph Salerno, Barry Simpson, Joseph Stromberg, H. Arthur Scott Trask, Richard Vedder, and Clyde Wilson.
2746 in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Author: United States Circuit Court of AppealsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333114121
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Excerpt from 2746 in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: John Grant Lyman, Plaintiffs in Error, Vs; United States of America, Defendant in Error; Brief of Plaintiff in Error The fourth assignment of error [tr. Fol. 1081] is based on the action of the court in receiving in evi dence, over defendant's objection, a letter addressed to the Stoddard Incorporating Trust Company for the purpose of ascertaining what steps would be necessary to reduce the capital stock of the Panama Develop ment Company from one million dollars to one hun dred thousand dollars. The defendant objected to the introduction of this evidence and excepted to the action of the court in receiving it [tr. Fol. The fifth assignment of error [tr. Fol. 1082] was based on the action of the court in receiving in evi dence, over defendant's objection, a letter addressed to the Panama Development Company, advising said company of the necessary steps to be taken to legally change the articles of incorporation of an Arizona company. Defendant objected to the introduction of this evidence and excepted to the action of the court in receiving it [tr. Fol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Fighting for Your Life
Author: John V. ElmorePublisher: Amber Books Publishing
ISBN: 9780972751933
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A thought-provoking wake-up call for all African Americans, "Fighting for Your Life" teaches readers how to choose the best attorney to help win a personal fight for justice, how to understand rights and to know what to do if arrested, and how to survive if they get caught up in the criminal justice system.
America's Mayor
Author: Sam RobertsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231152617
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book is about Lindsay's dream to reinvent New York. Fully a half century since Lindsay was elected to public office, the aftershocks of his record still reverberate as a government grappling with the consequences of immigration, income inequality, a healthcare crisis, and environmental adversity confronts the legacy of the 1960s. --